From: Seebs Date: 2010-05-03T13:25:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Main working window for Ruby is DOS? On 2010-05-03, Kaye Ng wrote: > I just downloaded Ruby. I expected an environment like Visual BASIC > where there's a tool bar on the left side and you can just click a > textbox, label, or a command button and it would appear on a Form. > Isn't Ruby like that? No. Ruby is a programming language, not a GUI builder. Ruby has tools for building all sorts of programs, but it's not something like Visual Basic that is completely tied to the assumption that the user is running on a desktop machine that's the same system where the Ruby code is running. Ruby is used in other environments, such as web servers, where the user could be thousands of miles from the computer running the program. Like most programming languages, Ruby's basic/default user interface is that it reads data from input and writes it to output, typically seen by the new user as text in a command prompt window. Basically, the stuff you're thinking about from Visual Basic is really unrelated to programming -- it's a GUI builder, not the actual language. VB is tied heavily to that model, so no one really cares. Ruby is more flexible. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated!