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infinite05 · Jul 30th, 2006, 8:15 PM

I was wondering if Ruby is good for creating programs which use Gui. Because im willing to learn this language but I would like to use Ruby to create programs which go to the internet and automaticly do things for you when you click a button.

Arevos · Jul 31st, 2006, 8:42 AM

Ruby works with several poopular cross-platform GUI toolkits, including wxWidgets, Qt and GTK. It lags a little behind Python, though (a language similar and often compared to Ruby). wxRuby is only at version 0.6.0, and QtRuby only supports Qt 3 (whilst PyQt now supports Qt 4).

GTK seems the most viable option for a Ruby GUI.

Jessehk · Jul 31st, 2006, 7:50 PM

There is also FxRuby which uses the Fox toolkit, but I haven't looked into it.
Ruby's use of gtk is pretty nice, e.g.

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require 'gtk2'

Gtk.init

button = Gtk::Button.new("Hello, world!")
window = Gtk::Window.new

window.signal_connect("destroy") { Gtk.main_quit }
window.border_width = 10
window.add button
window.show_all

Gtk.main

but if you are writing a GUI application, I would still recommend Python over Ruby.

infinite05 · Jul 31st, 2006, 9:51 PM

Yeah, im going to learn Python now because I dont know how to use Rubyscript2exe but I do know how to use py2exe.

Jul 30th, 2006, 8:15 PM	#1
infinite05 Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 0	Ruby Good With Gui? I was wondering if Ruby is good for creating programs which use Gui. Because im willing to learn this language but I would like to use Ruby to create programs which go to the internet and automaticly do things for you when you click a button.

Jul 31st, 2006, 7:50 PM	#3
Jessehk The Oblivious One Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 655 Rep Power: 4	There is also FxRuby which uses the Fox toolkit, but I haven't looked into it. Ruby's use of gtk is pretty nice, e.g. (Toggle Plain Text) require 'gtk2' Gtk.init button = Gtk::Button.new("Hello, world!") window = Gtk::Window.new window.signal_connect("destroy") { Gtk.main_quit } window.border_width = 10 window.add button window.show_all Gtk.main require 'gtk2' Gtk.init button = Gtk::Button.new("Hello, world!") window = Gtk::Window.new window.signal_connect("destroy") { Gtk.main_quit } window.border_width = 10 window.add button window.show_all Gtk.main but if you are writing a GUI application, I would still recommend Python over Ruby. __________________ Dr. Zoidberg: [ecstatic] I'm going to a movie... with FRIENDS!

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Jul 31st, 2006, 8:42 AM	#2
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	Ruby works with several poopular cross-platform GUI toolkits, including wxWidgets, Qt and GTK. It lags a little behind Python, though (a language similar and often compared to Ruby). wxRuby is only at version 0.6.0, and QtRuby only supports Qt 3 (whilst PyQt now supports Qt 4). GTK seems the most viable option for a Ruby GUI.

Jul 31st, 2006, 9:51 PM	#4
infinite05 Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 0	Yeah, im going to learn Python now because I dont know how to use Rubyscript2exe but I do know how to use py2exe.

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