Desktop Application

Ruby
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Hello Everyone,

Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.
Please help me.

Thanx

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On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Hemlata G.
[email protected] wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Heya!

Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.

What do you exactly mean? Do you want to develop application with
Graphical User Interfaces(GUIs)? If so, yes you can.
There are many libraries for that:

  • Shoes
  • Gtk
  • Qt
  • wxRuby
  • FXRuby

So far I only tried FXRuby and I like with some minor problem which I
run into and I didn’t explore them further, so it is highly possible
that I just didn’t do it right :slight_smile:

Or do you mean creating executables? If that’s it, yes you can use
Ruby2Exe to create .exe files which will run on Linux, OSX and
Windows(if you create them on each system).

There are also bindings to the WinAPI and to OLE objects(e.g. automate
MSExcel), if that’s what you’re searching.

The good thing about Ruby? It is a lot of fun to use each of them.

Regards, Thomas

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On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:04 +0900, Hemlata G. wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.
Please help me.

Thanx

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyZilla

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Hemlata G. wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.
Please help me.

Look into using JRuby with Monkeybars.

http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org/

–
James B.

“In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly
universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded
by
uncertainty cannot be the truth.”

  • R. Feynman
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Reid T. wrote:

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:04 +0900, Hemlata G. wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.
Please help me.

Thanx

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyZilla

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/

Thanks, I will go further.

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Hemlata G. wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.
Please help me.

Thanx

Hi Hemlata,

Pl. keep an eye on IronRuby. With IronRuby you can easily create all
deskptop applications as well as web applications.

Microsoft is currently porting Ruby and Ruby on Rails to .Net platform,
and within 2 months you will be able to work just like C# and Vb.Net
with Ruby taking full advantage.

Have a look at IronRuby section in this forums.

Cheers!

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Softmind T. wrote:

Hemlata G. wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.
Please help me.

Thanx

Hi Hemlata,

Pl. keep an eye on IronRuby. With IronRuby you can easily create all
deskptop applications as well as web applications.

Microsoft is currently porting Ruby and Ruby on Rails to .Net platform,
and within 2 months you will be able to work just like C# and Vb.Net
with Ruby taking full advantage.

Have a look at IronRuby section in this forums.

Cheers!

Hello Softmind

Thanks for your support.

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On Feb 1, 2008 5:04 AM, Hemlata G. [email protected]
wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Can we make desktop application with ruby? If yes then how? I searched
many of sites but exact result of this question i did not received. I
didnot find any demo or book regarding desktop application with ruby.
Please help me.

A lot of people have suggested each of the major GUI toolkits. If you
need a book, the Pragmatic Programmers have a beta available of their
upcoming book on FXRuby. Also, for something out of the ordinary for
desktop application development, check out Shoes at
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/

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