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infinite05

Jul 30th, 2006 8:15 PM

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.

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.

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.

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