From: Patrick Lynch Date: 2011-05-11T10:06:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Activity Hi, I'm actually using a Mac with Snow Leopard... At the Bash command line: the command tclsh invokes TCL, so it is installed on my machine... However, in irb: require 'tk' gives an error message... I'd appreciate any advice...quite frankly, I don't know how to install TCL with Ruby gems... Thank you ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Christopherson" To: "ruby-talk ML" Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:00 PM Subject: Re: Ruby Activity > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Patrick Lynch > wrote: >> I'm using Ruby 1.8.7 and it does not contain TK... >> ie, in irb: 'require TK' returns error 'no such file to load...' > > It's actually not built into the RubyInstaller Windows versions. Maybe > there are other distributions that it's not built into either. (You > can install Tcl/Tk yourself and then use the tk_as_gem gem to get it.) > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stu" >> To: "ruby-talk ML" >> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 4:31 PM >> Subject: Re: Ruby Activity >> >> >>> Ruby comes with tk build in. While your investigating which toolkits >>> are right for your project that on is distributed with the language to >>> play with right off the bat. >>> >>> ~Stu >>> >>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Bobby S. wrote: >>>> >>>> Is ruby still being developed? The official site has last release in >>>> dec >>>> 2010. >>>> >>>> >>>> The other thing is are any of the GUI toolkits still being developed. >>>> Most of them date back to 2009 or later. >>>> >>>> I love ruby but I went looking for a GUI toolkit today and found no >>>> active ones then I started looking at ruby for the reason and now I am >>>> worried. >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >