Ruby and .NET

[Joe Van Dyk]

I've written a couple Ruby programs that run on Linux using
ruby-gnome2 as the GUI toolkit. Say I get asked to port them over to
Windows (2000 and up).

How would I go about slapping a .NET GUI frontend on it? (I'm
assuming using .NET is the way to go these days)

Joe

 

[gregarican]

I've written a couple Ruby programs that run on Linux using
ruby-gnome2 as the GUI toolkit. Say I get asked to port them over to
Windows (2000 and up).

How would I go about slapping a .NET GUI frontend on it? (I'm
assuming using .NET is the way to go these days)


Joe

Check out http://rubydotnet.sourceforge.net/.

 

[Michael Trier]

The progress on John Lam's Ruby to .NET bridge is much further along.=20
I would look into that. John has done some impressive stuff:

http://www.iunknown.com

Michael

 

[Michael Trier]

Let me clarify, when I originally looked at it. I haven't checked out
rubydotnet in a while.

Michael

 

[Jamey Cribbs]

I've written a couple Ruby programs that run on Linux using
ruby-gnome2 as the GUI toolkit. Say I get asked to port them over to
Windows (2000 and up).

How would I go about slapping a .NET GUI frontend on it? (I'm
assuming using .NET is the way to go these days)

Joe, just curious why you wouldn't just use the Windows version of
Ruby-Gtk2? Is it because of look&feel?

If it's stability concerns, I've written a couple of Ruby-Gtk2 apps that
run on Windows every day and my users report no problems.

Jamey

 

[Florian Groß]

Joe, just curious why you wouldn't just use the Windows version of
Ruby-Gtk2? Is it because of look&feel?

If it's stability concerns, I've written a couple of Ruby-Gtk2 apps that
run on Windows every day and my users report no problems.

Look&Feel are pretty much OK as well if you change the GTK renderer to WIMP.

 

[John Lam]

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My RubyCLR bridge should let you do what you're looking for - the drop
that's out there in circulation now has a simple RSS reader built as a
Windows Forms 2.0 application. I've also built a non-trivial 3D Avalon (WPF=
)
app using an earlier version of the bridge, although I'm just revisiting
that stuff now.

The current drop is almost 3 weeks old - it's about due for a refresh M=
y
private builds now have a ton of new features; off the top of my head there
is:

- support for interfaces
- a lot of really cool Reflection features to make prototyping .NET code in
irb *much* nicer
- a ton of perf and reliability work; 80% of the C++ part of the bridge was
re-written.
- much better support for a few data binding scenarios (such as data bindin=
g
against native Ruby arrays)
- support for generics (I don't resolve method overloads against generic
types correctly now - I'm punting that to the next release)
- proper support for array creation

-John
http://www.iunknown.com

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[Joe Van Dyk]

Look&Feel are pretty much OK as well if you change the GTK renderer to WI=

MP.

Hm... I'll have to see how ruby-gnome2 operates on Windows. I really
prefer native GUI toolkits though. I'd probably design a Windows UI
completely different than a Linux UI (and also probably different on
OS X).