From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-01T13:20:35+09:00
Subject: Re: What are the weaknesses in Ruby?

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Huw Collingbourne wrote:

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| 2) Or if you want a cross-platform GUI, how about Adobe Flex/Flash? I'
| ve just put a simple tutorial online explaining the basics of Flex+Ruby
| On Rails. This is a web app but in principle I can't see why you
| couldn't use Flex as a front-end for either an embedded Flash app (i.e.
| Flash embedded into an app written in a compiled language such as C#,
| Delphi etc.) or as a cross-platform standalone using Adobe's new AIR...

Adding to this: Monkeybars makes it a breeze to grab the Swing UI from
Java with JRuby, for a really cross platform solution (and the MVC
pattern :P). ;)

(Adobe is slow in supporting non-Windows, non-Apple products.)

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