From: Zachary Scott <zachary@...>
Date: 2012-01-24T01:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Building desktop application using Ruby and any GUI Framework

Oh, I should clarify, you can use any ruby that is >= 1.9.2, I'm not
sure about 1.9.1 but 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 both work exceptionally well.

There's also a great many number of samples available in the github
repo: https://github.com/ashbb/green_shoes/tree/master/samples


zzak

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Peter Vandenabeele
<peter@vandenabeele.com> wrote:
> 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