Ruby + GUI?

[pete]

Hi-

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Thanks for your inputs.

 

[Piyush Ranjan]

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shoes

 

[Jeremy McAnally]

I like Shoes a lot if you need something simple.

If you need something better, then I think perhaps fxRuby (if you
don't need a native look) or wxRuby (if you do) are your best options.
Ruby/Tk is okay if you like Tk and all, but I personally prefer the
previous kits.

--Jeremy

Hi-

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Thanks for your inputs.

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[Jonas Roberto de Goes Filho (sysdebug)]

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pete wrote:
| Hi-
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| What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?
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| Thanks for your inputs.
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Hi pete, Ruby + GNOME2 [1], for me, is the best way for create
GUI/standalone applications.

[1] http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/

I already tested this, and approved I like more this then Java.

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[Sharon Phillips]

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?

I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby
(yep, the world needs another swing framework , but then I quite
like Swing...
currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to
corresponding fields a Personnel object.)

class PersonnelView < EntityView
based_on ersonnel

heading "Edit Personnel"
label :fullname,
:when_blank => '[unknown]',
:desc => 'Full name'
text :firstname
text :surname
drop_down :security_status,
:select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top
Secret']
check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
:desc => 'agreement signed?'
drop_down :contract_role,
:select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
memo :comments,
:height => 6
end

Cheers,
Dave

 

[pete]

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?

I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby
(yep, the world needs another swing framework , but then I quite
like Swing...
currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to
corresponding fields a Personnel object.)

class PersonnelView < EntityView
based_on ersonnel

heading "Edit Personnel"
label :fullname,
:when_blank => '[unknown]',
:desc => 'Full name'
text :firstname
text :surname
drop_down :security_status,
:select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top
Secret']
check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
:desc => 'agreement signed?'
drop_down :contract_role,
:select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
memo :comments,
:height => 6
end

Cheers,
Dave

Great! Thanks everyone. All I really wanted was a good starting
place, it seems there's a lot of options out there and I'm pretty
limited on time to get this project done.

This project in particular will be on Windows (sorry), but I'm also a
Linux user and most of the development I do is in the Linux
environment. I'll take alook at all of these and see what best fits
for my app.

Thanks again!

 

[Kyle Schmitt]

PSst. this question is asked probably once a week a quick search of
the archives will give you lots and lots of information, links,
personal opinions etc.


...mind you I've been guilty too of asking such repeated and
repeatable questions....

--Kyle

 

[Jonas Roberto de Goes Filho (sysdebug)]

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Hi,

pete wrote:
|>> What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?
|> Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?
|>
|> I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby
|> (yep, the world needs another swing framework , but then I quite
|> like Swing...
|> currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to
|> corresponding fields a Personnel object.)
|>
|> class PersonnelView < EntityView
|> based_on ersonnel
|>
|> heading "Edit Personnel"
|> label :fullname,
|> :when_blank => '[unknown]',
|> :desc => 'Full name'
|> text :firstname
|> text :surname
|> drop_down :security_status,
|> :select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top
|> Secret']
|> check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
|> :desc => 'agreement signed?'
|> drop_down :contract_role,
|> :select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
|> memo :comments,
|> :height => 6
|> end
|>
|> Cheers,
|> Dave
|
| Great! Thanks everyone. All I really wanted was a good starting
| place, it seems there's a lot of options out there and I'm pretty
| limited on time to get this project done.
|
| This project in particular will be on Windows (sorry), but I'm also a
| Linux user and most of the development I do is in the Linux
| environment. I'll take alook at all of these and see what best fits
| for my app.

Pete.. If you install GTK+ and Ruby on Windows, will be possible run
your application on windows too.


|
| Thanks again!
|

Cheers,

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[Huw Collingbourne]

This project in particular will be on Windows

If you are using Visual Studio, you could use our free .NET /Ruby
Connector...

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/SapphireSteel-Downloads

Visual Rails Tools will have to wait until Ruby In Steel 1.2 early in
2008 while fully integrated drag+drop event-driven form design probably
won't be released until IronRuby is close to completion - though we do
have demos of our beta form designer...

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Form-Designer

best wishes
Huw

SapphireSteel Software
http://www.sapphiresteel.com

 

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?

I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby
(yep, the world needs another swing framework , but then I quite like
Swing...
currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to
corresponding fields a Personnel object.)

class PersonnelView < EntityView
based_on ersonnel

heading "Edit Personnel"
label :fullname,
:when_blank => '[unknown]',
:desc => 'Full name'
text :firstname
text :surname
drop_down :security_status,
:select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top
Secret']
check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
:desc => 'agreement signed?'
drop_down :contract_role,
:select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
memo :comments,
:height => 6
end

Looks slick.

To pete: Lately it seems like lots of folks are settling on JRuby+Swing
for cross-platform GUI stuff in Ruby. One binary basically runs anywhere
without recompile or modification. That would be my recommendation.

- Charlie

 

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

To pete: Lately it seems like lots of folks are settling on JRuby+Swing
for cross-platform GUI stuff in Ruby. One binary basically runs anywhere
without recompile or modification. That would be my recommendation.

Note: I didn't illustrate one other important point: you don't even need
to install JRuby on the host machines. Just ship your app plus JRuby in
a single file and it will run wherever Java lives.

- Charlie

 

[Marc Heiler]

"What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?"

I would recommend ruby-gnome/gtk for one sole reason - it has a wiki.
A nice, cute hiki wiki. None ruby-toolkit I am aware of has such a big
wiki.

In fact, I believe, the other ruby-GUI bindings DO NOT EVEN HAVE ANY
WIKI!

You can prove me wrong though, but for now I stand by this bold claim.


(PS: Though, the ruby-gnome wiki is quite good, there are a few missing
parts, especially about gnomecanvas and cairo, or gnome-druid etc...
bindings. But since I also use that, I can do some research and add
lacking docu slowly too. One advantage of a central wiki ... people can
chime in and improve it over time)