From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-07-10T22:04:20+09:00
Subject: Re: can we develop desktop application

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Rajkumar Surabhi<mailtorajuit@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is ruby for developing web based applications only
>
> or can we develop desktop applications with ruby.
> If we do how can we do that.

There are several excellent gui toolkit bindings for ruby, including
all the major ones (Qt, Gtk, Wx, Fox, Tk). Also Monkeybars is a
higher-level toolkit on top of Swing, for JRuby. And Shoes is a
complete GUI-development toolkit that includes a forked version of
ruby.

martin