From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-09-01T09:44:19+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI programming

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Alexey Petrushin <axyd80@gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe right now it's better to stay with console, there's no Ruby
> GUI, only hacks.
>
> Shoes seems to be abandoned and buggy.
> Bowline looks nice but You has to write GUI in JavaScript, so it's not
> "Ruby GUI".
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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>
I got a lot of help from the IRC channel, and Steve mentioned just recently
that he's still developing it (
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/050-issues-18-testing-dogma.html#comment-268721639).
Shoes is definitely not abandoned.

Biggest complaint I had was difficulty getting feedback (when I used Shoes,
it would swallow errors, as opposed to Limelight, which would report them on
stdout) IDK if its still set up that way, or if one of the other colours of
shoes doesn't do that. Second biggest is that IDK how you'd test most of
that stuff.

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