From: Bosko Ivanisevic <bosko.ivanisevic@...>
Date: 2010-01-20T06:00:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating GUI applications with Ruby 1.9.1

On Jan 19, 9:06 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <mar...@marnen.org> wrote:
> Alpha Blue wrote:
> > Roger Pack wrote:
> >> you also "might" need Tcl 8.4--give 'era shot, though, with 8.5...
>
> > gem install tk_as_gem --platform x86-mingw32
> > Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> > Successfully installed tk_as_gem-0.0.1
> > 1 gem installed
> > Installing ri documentation for tk_as_gem-0.0.1...
> > Updating class cache with 1669 classes...
> > Installing RDoc documentation for tk_as_gem-0.0.1...
>
> > C:\Users\Joel>irb
> > irb(main):001:0> require "tk"
> > => true
>
> > Works fine Roger - many thanks.  I'm going to bypass Titanium and play
> > with TK instead because Titanium is missing a lot of documentation.
>
> But apparently, Ruby/Tk has an awful API.  The Ruby GUI survey at
> pressure.to found that developers rated Ruby/Tk dead last in quality of
> API, and recommended that it be removed from the standard library.  You
> probably want to use something else.
>
I could not agree more. After trying to make an application with Ruby/
Tk I've switched to WxRuby which works equally well under the Linux
and Windows and Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.9.1.

Regards,
Bosko Ivanisevic