From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2003-09-21T02:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do windows applications ?

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:24:55 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
>>Why not just create a Ruby/Tk (or other GUI toolkit) application?  
> 
>>>Question1: What modules do you use for windows applications ?
>>
>>For web apps there's plenty of template frameworks out there, eruby,
>>amrita, ...
> 
> This doesn't answer the question, what ruby-modules/frameworks do you use
> for composing windows application ?    How do you install it so it *feels*
> like a typical windows application (installshield?) ?

I use a) whatever I need and b) what's available. (That's of course completely indepentent of the OS 
anyway...)
I personally, don't think a special kind of installer makes an application feel more like a typical 
windows app. Many people don't like that installer stuff anyway, and prefer to just place the 
file(s) in a directory and run the program. That depends heavily on your customers "culture" and 
back ground, of course.

Do you think about wrapping the app in something like exerb to produce a windows executable?
Then you might think about wrapping _that_ into some installer in turn...
But I wouldn't like it delivered that way. But I'm not a dog trainer.

> Also the shebang concept does'nt work on windows, what do I have to do if
> I want to make a ruby script executable ?

Just run it - like in "ruby killerapp".
If the system's set up appropriately it should recognize the .rb prefix and run the Ruby interpreter 
automatically. What I think is that "How to fire up the program" is likely the most OS oriented 
question you should encounter (part from trying "fork" and things on a Windows box).

The main part of the app however should be largely unrelated to the underlying OS - especially if 
you do it in Ruby anyway.


Cheers,

Stephan