From: Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T22:14:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop Application

On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Hemlata Gupta
<hemlata@risingsundesign.biz> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>

Heya!

>  Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
>  many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
>  didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.
>

What do you exactly mean? Do you want to develop application with
Graphical User Interfaces(GUIs)? If so, yes you can.
There are many libraries for that:
 - Shoes
 - Gtk
 - Qt
 - wxRuby
 - FXRuby

So far I only tried FXRuby and I like with some minor problem which I
run into and I didn't explore them further, so it is highly possible
that I just didn't do it right :)

Or do you mean creating executables? If that's it, yes you can use
Ruby2Exe to create .exe files which will run on Linux, OSX and
Windows(if you create them on each system).

There are also bindings to the WinAPI and to OLE objects(e.g. automate
MSExcel), if that's what you're searching.

The good thing about Ruby? It is a lot of fun to use each of them.

Regards, Thomas