# \[ANN\] Freightrain 0.8.4 released!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freightrain-0-8-4-released/219112>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [April 20, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freightrain-0-8-4-released/219112 "2012-04-20T21:43:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b77776/32.png) [@Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gurdipe_D)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freightrain-0-8-4-released/219112/1 "2012-04-20T21:43:21Z")

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FREIGHTRAIN  
Ruby desktop development made easy

Freightrain is a framework for ruby desktop development. It works with a  
number of toolkits (including gtk+ via the ruby/gnome2 bindings) and  
it’s MVVM and composition oriented.

Long story short: create your interfaces with Glade and automatically  
get them loaded in your ruby program, with a nice MVVM layer on top of  
it and a lot of other goodies 🙂

This release pushes a workaround for the glade files format - glade  
expects you to use them with gtk3, so some elements have wrong names  
such as GtkBox instead of GtkVBox/GtkHBox.

–  
Andrea D.

> **[GitHub - bolthar/freightrain: Ruby desktop development made easy](https://github.com/bolthar/freightrain)**
>
> Ruby desktop development made easy. Contribute to bolthar/freightrain development by creating an account on GitHub.

> **[using (IMHO)](https://usingimho.wordpress.com)**
>
> Andrea Dallera 's blog

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**Author:** ![ribbed21](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ribbed21](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ribbed21)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-freightrain-0-8-4-released/219112/2 "2012-04-21T05:40:57Z")

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Hi Andrea:

Congrats on your latest release. I’m going to look at it again now.

Also, thanks for all your help with my project.

Ciao,  
Eric