From: Adam Gardner <adam.oddfellow@...>
Date: 2009-03-21T01:06:33+09:00
Subject: Re: no such file to load -- popup

> hi , thanks for the reply.
> 
> I din't know this . :)
> Is there a way to open a popup using ruby?
> 
> Cheerio,
> Arvin

Yes, but how you do it depends on what 'platform' you're working with. 
If you're platform is the web, then I'm sure there are many, many ways, 
but I don't know them 'cause that's not what I use Ruby for. I'm sure 
other could help you out there.

If you're doing a desktop application, there are numerous ways to do it. 
They range from simple, lightweight systems like Shoes [1] to full 
fledged GUI toolkits like WxRuby [2]  or Ruby-GNOME [3], and plenty of 
more specialized ones like Gosu [4] (which is game-design oriented).

Some alternative interpreters like JRuby [5] and MacRuby [6] provide 
their own methods for making windows, appropriate to the platforms they 
are targeting (the JVM and the OS X Objective-C runtime, respectively).

It's hard for me to make a recommendation on one of these, as I've only 
used a few of them (and there are others I haven't listed, besides). If 
you're just playing around, Shoes is a great place to start. Otherwise, 
it might help to have more information about what sort of 'popup' you're 
trying to make.

Hope this helps,
- Adam

[1] http://shoooes.net/
[2] http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
[3] http://ruby-gnome.sourceforge.net/
[4] http://libgosu.org/
[5] http://jruby.codehaus.org/
[6] http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/MacRuby
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