From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2009-10-23T09:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.9, sqlite3 and qt4 on windows

Martin DeMello wrote:
> I'm thinking of developing an app with ruby 1.9, sqlite3 and qt4 which
> I'd like to distribute on windows, ideally as a packaged executable,
> though if it works against the one-click installer that'd be fine too.
> Anyone with experience to share? Sqlite3 is the only hard requirement,
> but I'm very reluctant to go back to ruby 1.8, and Qt would be a plus
> because this is intended to be a companion to an existing Qt app.
> 

You might want to check out ruby2exe, I haven't used this but it looks like a 
good possibility for what you're trying to do.

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html

If you're going to add database support you might want to think about using 
ActiveRecord, this will make it easier for you to switch to another database 
later. There is also RubyDBI you might want to look at. Unless there is a need 
to use specific feature of sqlite3, you might want to use a more flexible 
database interface than sqlite3-ruby.

GUI wise, there is wxWidgets which takes a lot of ideas from MFC Windows 
programming, you could check that project out, for Ruby you would then be 
working with WxRuby

http://www.wxwidgets.org/
http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl

I have not used either of there, but you can compare it with QT4

> martin
> 
> 


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