From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2008-11-19T05:46:25+09:00
Subject: Re: simple way to duplicate vba's InputBox, Msgbox?

On Nov 18, 3:14 pm, "Phil" <philliprichardsNOTT...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've always used VBScript to write the simple scripts I
> occasionally need. But now that I've learned a tiny bit of
> ruby, I don't want to use vbscript anymore!
>
> Unfortunately for me, ruby has nothing like InputBox() and Msgbox().

Shoes (http://shoooes.net/) is a simple GUI toolkit and probably what
you're looking for. Sample:

if confirm("Do Something?")
  do_it
else
  do_something_else
end

-- Mark.