From ruby-talk Sat Nov 11 20:49:04 2006 From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:49:04 +0000 To: ruby-talk Subject: Re: Ruby GUI with IDE Message-Id: <45563728.6020509 () cesmail ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=ruby-talk&m=116327817324317 David Vallner wrote: > AliasX Neo wrote: > >> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> >>> This should be a FAQ. :) There are quite a few -- my favorite (on Linux) >>> is Kommander/Korundum/QTRuby. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> -- >>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) >>> http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given >>> rabbits fire. >>> >> I'm running Windows, any good ones for that? >> >> > > The short answer: no. > > The long answer: > > If you manage to port qtruby4 to Windows, you get QtDesigner (overall > Qt4 seems to be designed to have the GUI layout created in that, > decoupling the UI design and behaviour implementations.) Things like > rubyuic should work the same on all platforms. > IIRC Caleb Tennis posted some encouraging words on this a couple of weeks ago. I don't do Windows development, so I haven't even attempted to make this work. > Another hope is the wx rewrite getting into a stable state, and wxGlade > supporting emitting of Ruby code. This is however just speculation. > > Personally, if you need to do this sort of GUI development on Windows, > Ruby is so far rough around the edges. > Well, there's always CygWin But seriously, both the One-Click Installer and Instant Rails contain FreeRide and the dependencies FXRuby and Fox. If you don't mind spending some money, some combination of the ActiveState tool set (ActiveTcl, Komodo 4, etc.) and the One-Click Installer or Instant Rails ought to be workable. So should the Sapphire In Steel IDE that hooks into Visual Studio. I don't know what shape the various Ruby/CLR projects are in, so I can't comment on them. jRuby 1.0 will probably be better than any of them, but I don't know how long it will be till that release. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/ If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire.