From: Mohit Sindhwani Date: 2008-02-05T13:57:57+09:00 Subject: Re: GUI for a newbie Jayson Williams wrote: >>> On Jan 31, 2008 3:56 PM, Matthew Borgeson wrote: >>> > > >> Everything else since then has been done using VS2005 and C#. The C# language is like tying >> your hands behind your back compared to the elegance of Ruby but the >> ease of dragging and dropping widgets and having the wiring together >> done behind the scenes is worth it :-( >> >> I'd love to get back into what current projects and revisions of GUI >> builders are out there for Ruby though! >> >> >> > > I would agree %100 with your comparison of C# and Ruby. Ruby almost > feels like it has a forgiving, intuitive soul, that understands what > you want it to do. C# on the other hand, feels more like a cold dead > thing, that will obey your command, if you ask nicely, but has no > intuition. Another option down the line for you may be Microsoft's > IronRuby. I sort of cringe at the thought of IronRuby though. Its like > turning Ruby into a Borg, > ...resistance is futile... you will assimilate!... > There is another tool by ActiveState called Tk Gui Builder (formally > called SpecTCL). It will create a Tk GUI for Ruby, Perl, and a few > other platforms, and has the RAD feel to it. Unfortunately it is no > longer supported, I recently gave GUI Builder a try, and although it > works well, it made some things more difficult. In the end, I found it > easier to write the code for the GUI myself. It might be worth you > having a look a though. There is also a small Google Group called > "Ruby And The Tk Toolkit", that you might find useful. > Actually, WideStudio has drag-and-drop and can als0 do some of the wiring automatically. However, very few people seem to use it. Cheers, Mohit. 2/5/2008 | 12:58 PM.