Interface

[Jason Matthew]

Hi There,

I have been using rails for the last 6 months and loving every minute of
it. I decided it would be smart to dive into learning the in's and out's
of Ruby. I bought Beginning Ruby, Programming Ruby, and the Ruby
Cookbook.

I am through chapter 6 of Beginning Ruby and I havent seen any mention
of GUI.

I primarily work on os x, is RubyCocoa the main way of doing GUI in ruby
on OS X?

Any tips or advice on where I can read more about GUI with Ruby on OS X
would be great.

Thanks!!

Jason

 

[John Joyce]

Hi There,

I have been using rails for the last 6 months and loving every
minute of
it. I decided it would be smart to dive into learning the in's and
out's
of Ruby. I bought Beginning Ruby, Programming Ruby, and the Ruby
Cookbook.

I am through chapter 6 of Beginning Ruby and I havent seen any
mention
of GUI.

I primarily work on os x, is RubyCocoa the main way of doing GUI in
ruby
on OS X?

Any tips or advice on where I can read more about GUI with Ruby on
OS X
would be great.

Thanks!!

Jason

RubyCocoa is one way, and it's the best way to achieve truly native
GUI with OS X, but it does require some Cocoa understanding, mostly
the Hillegass book. This is poised to change at the end of this month
with the new Objective-C 2 and a new XCode as well.
But, you can do GUI stuff with RubyTk, WxRuby or Qt libraries for
Ruby as well.
It's a little less learning curve than Cocoa, but a whole different
approach and you can use that stuff for cross-platform work.

 

[Phlip]

I am through chapter 6 of Beginning Ruby and I havent seen any mention
of GUI.

I primarily work on os x, is RubyCocoa the main way of doing GUI in ruby
on OS X?

Guess what: A GUI platform is a library, not a religion. Ruby is agnostic.
The books you read are teaching you how to use Ruby, including how to use it
with a library. When the time comes to plug in a

Any tips or advice on where I can read more about GUI with Ruby on OS X
would be great.

Not a joke: Why not use Rails to write the GUI you want, then serve it
locally? Folks are finding this technique competitive (in the >cough<
enterprise) with the ponderous desktop GUIs.

El Goog can lead you to whatever Ruby/Cocoa libraries are available.

 

[Phlip]

Guess what: A GUI platform is a library, not a religion. Ruby is agnostic.

The books you read are teaching you how to use Ruby, including how to use
it with a library. When the time comes to plug in a

GUI library, you'll be ready.