From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-11-06T06:37:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby has a Face that it wears on its feet

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Jayson Williams
<williams.jayson@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion, Ruby's official face should be Shoes. Shoes gives Ruby
> a face by adding a simple GUI toolkit. I have been an advocate for Tk
> for as long as I have been using Ruby, because of its ease at picking
> up for new users. But Shoes makes Tk look like brain surgery. Shoes is
> probably more like a baby face for Ruby. Better suited for small
> applications that don't require an overly complex GUI. If your looking
> at adding a simple face to your Ruby applications, have a look at
> Shoes.
> Oooh.. and Shoes allows you to build standalone executable apps too.
> Have a look and let me know what you think.

Much as I love Shoes, there is a severe problem with adding it to the
official ruby distro - it is not a ruby library, but a self-contained
executable complete with forked ruby interpreter. You need to run
programs with `shoes <progname>`, rather than `ruby <progname>`

martin