From: Zachary Scott <zachary@...>
Date: 2012-01-24T01:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Building desktop application using Ruby and any GUI Framework

You should give green_shoes[1] a try.

It's an ever so pleasant DSL built on top of Ruby GTK2, here's a
sample from the readme:

```ruby
require 'green_shoes'

Shoes.app( :width => 250, :height => 250 ) do
  para 'Hello, world!'
  image 'images/shoes.png'
end
```

All you need to get started is ruby 1.9.2, rubygems 1.5+, and the gtk2
gem (which may be automatically installed for you when installing the
green_shoes gem): then you're ready to install green_shoes:

gem install green_shoes

The best part, other than the super friendly api, is that your apps
will run on linux and windows without any modification. They may even
work on OSX, but I'm not sure the current state of support for mac.


zzak


1: https://github.com/ashbb/green_shoes



On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:
> To warm up your research...
>
> * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/GUI_Toolkit_Modules
> * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260905/whats-the-best-easiest-gui-library-for-ruby
>
> Tip: Some of them are better than the others when dealing with an
> specific constraint/objective. In a small project of mine I wrote 3
> (simple) GUIs (looking the same) using tk, wxRuby, RubyCocoa.
>
> Abinoam Jr.
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Rubyist Rohit
> <passionate_programmer@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> @Rohit Mehta:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What type of application you built using GTK? Are you using any
>> database-backend as well?
>>
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>