From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...>
Date: 2012-01-24T01:22:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Building desktop application using Ruby and any GUI Framework

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Zachary Scott <zachary@zacharyscott.net>wrote:

> 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.
>


Just tried on Ubuntu 10.04 (in rvm with 1.9.3) and it installed
like a charm :-) The test program also worked immediately.

$ cat Gemfile
source :rubygems

gem 'green_shoes'

$ bundle install
Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
Installing pkg-config (1.1.2)
Installing glib2 (1.1.2) with native extensions
Installing atk (1.1.2) with native extensions
Installing cairo (1.10.2) with native extensions
Installing gdk_pixbuf2 (1.1.2) with native extensions
Installing pango (1.1.2) with native extensions
Installing gtk2 (1.1.2) with native extensions # this took a minute or so
Installing green_shoes (1.1.354)
Using bundler (1.0.21)

HTH,

Peter

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