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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Ruby GUI with IDE
From:       "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb () cesmail ! net>
Date:       2006-11-11 20:49:04
Message-ID: 45563728.6020509 () cesmail ! net
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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 <ducking>

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.


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