From: Logan Barnett <logustus@...>
Date: 2009-02-26T01:49:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Developing Ruby on Glade for windows - worth it?...


On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Shilo Ayalon wrote:

> This is more of an open discussion, since I've never done it myself  
> and
> looking for input from those of you who have.
>
> I wrote a few .NET apps w/ C#, and ever since I picked up ruby I  
> really
> wished there was an environment to develop ruby guis easily on  
> win32. I
> saw this video on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXpwC1o5AcI)
> where building an app with glade seems simple enough, although it was
> done on ubuntu.

I used to be a .NET developer doing some desktop work before I came  
into Ruby. I'd highly recommend looking into Monkeybars (I'm a bit  
biased, since I help write it). We use Netbeans, and you can drag and  
drop controls onto your form pretty easily. The GUI library is Swing,  
and there are a lot of similarities between Swing and .NET's WinForms  
library (their GUI lib).

I don't want to thread hijack but I do think Monkeybars would make  
good use of your .NET experience.

http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org/
We're also on #monkeybars on freenode IRC.



>
>
> If you have a moment and experience with this, I'd really appreciate
> your take. Specifically, I want to build database driven applications
> for an office environment. My development machine is linux, but I also
> have a windows machine.

JotBot is one of our apps that uses Sequel under the hood for a local  
SQLite-like database called H2 (http://getjotbot.com).
I also have an internal app for one of my clients that uses  
ActiveRecord and MySQL for the ORM and database.

These apps are developed on Linux, Mac, and Windows, and then  
distributed to the other platforms. It's all Java under the hood, so  
it's cross platform.