From: paron <rphillips@...>
Date: 2008-03-24T21:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Rich Graphic Interface with Ruby

On Mar 23, 11:19 pm, Diego Bernardes <di3go.bernar...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> What is the best way to get a really nice gui in ruby?
>
> Opengl? Flex? Air now is going to Linux, maybe a alternative, i like
> Opengl but i think its alot complicated, have any other good one that i
> dont know? cairo?..?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If you search 'ruby xul' you'll find a couple of projects using
RubyOnRails for the backend and xul for the UI. Xul has a ton of
widgets, including canvas and SVG, so you can do a lot with it. (It is
the engine for Mozilla products like Firefox.)You could use it on any
OS that runs Firefox, presumably.

It means using Javascript for the UI internals, but you don't have to
do browser sniffing and all the workarounds for Internet Explorer, so
it is not bad at all. Besides, most of the real processing would
happen on the server.

Ron