From: Logan Barnett <logustus@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T06:05:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Good GUI documentation


On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Ruby Student wrote:

> Hello all you happy GUIsher!
>
> Does anyone know of a good, well written book to learn one of the GUI
> supported by Ruby?
> I looked at:
>
> Fox
> TK
> QTK
> Jruby with netbeans
> shoes
> wxruby
> wide studio
> rubyonsteel
> monkeybars
>
> I want something simple or at least well documented. Preferable drag  
> and
> drop. I would like to worry just about the ruby code and not  
> necessarily
> about the creation of the widgets.
> Something close to what Visual Basic provides. I know this is wishful
> thinking. I would purchase the book or even purchase the GUI  
> software (if it
> is reasonable). But all the tools I mentioned have their limitations  
> and
> documentation is so so at best. I wish the tool to be cross-platform  
> with
> native look and feel.
>
> I know about the recent GUI survey, which I think was very nice. The
> question is, what's next?
> At any rate, I will appreciate some info about a well documented GUI  
> for
> Ruby.
>
> Thank you all
> -- 
> Ruby Student

We've done a lot to leave some good RDoc in place for Monkeybars, but  
we do have very little in discussing how to bring it together, what do  
real apps look like, etc. Recently we moved to Kenai and opened up a  
wiki (http://kenai.com/projects/monkeybars/pages/Home). Our users have  
been filling it with loads of documentation, which I think really  
helps fill our documentation gap we have.

We're also really active on the mailing list and IRC.

Also, Monkeybars was designed with a GUI builder such as Netbeans in  
mind. I don't write any code for making the layout for my production  
apps in Monkeybars.

We don't have any Monkeybars books (yet), but we'd love to help you  
get up to speed as quick as we can.