From: Thomas Wieczorek Date: 2008-01-17T20:14:07+09:00 Subject: Re: FXRuby or Shoes? I have just started using FXRuby(with the PragProg PDF) and I am quite happy with it. There are some quirks, but I have to ask the FXRuby mailing list to make sure that I am not doing anything wrong. It allows you to use all Ruby techniques to create rich graphical user interfaces. As fas as I can see there are widgets for every GUI widget I have used so far in VB.Net oder Borland C++. Creating a GUI is fast and it is fun to do it. You might buy the book or take a quick tour with the user guide on the page(http://fxruby.org/doc/book.html) which helps you with your first steps in FXRuby. I haven't used Shoes so far, so I can't really