# Fwd: RubyTk...books and links and such

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 24, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-rubytk-books-and-links-and-such/130027 "2008-02-24T16:10:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomuhs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@tomuhs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomuhs)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-rubytk-books-and-links-and-such/130027/1 "2008-02-24T16:10:18Z")

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[Don’t cull the damn mailing list…]

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From: Serg K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Date: 24 Feb 2008 15:04  
Subject: Re: RubyTk…books and links and such  
To: Thomas A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

Everything lol. Just starting to learn and was trying to find a good  
GUI toolkit. FX looks promising but it doesn’t seem to install  
without a lot of hassles on OSX…and that usually means that’s not  
the only problem. I also looked at “Shoes” but that doesn’t look  
promising because of the history with HacketyHack (being dropped).  
Basically, I’m interested in stability and ease of use.

Personally, I’d like to get rid of the silly background image on the  
link [http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/](http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/) so I can  
read it without going cross-eyed 😉

Thanks for the suggestions though; it helps.

On Feb 24, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Thomas A. wrote:

> Hello –
> 
> On 24/02/2008, Serg K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > Any RubyTk books around? I haven’t been able to find anything  
> > online. I see there is a RubyFX book coming out but that doesn’t  
> > seem  
> > very stable from everything I’ve read on OS X.
> 
> There’s chapter in the Pickaxe book about Ruby and Tk as well as a  
> dedicated mailing list hosted via googlegroups on the matter and this  
> page here:
> 
> [http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/](http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/)
> 
> Just what is it you’re wanting to know?
> 
> – Thomas A.

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**Author:** ![tomuhs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@tomuhs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomuhs)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-rubytk-books-and-links-and-such/130027/2 "2008-02-24T17:38:01Z")

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> 

Well I just discovered that “Making Use of Ruby” has a chapter as  
well; it seems a bit more thorough and better organized than the one  
in “picaxe”. It’s still not complete though; no mention of menus for  
example. Picaxe gives a brief overview and then pretty much throws  
its hands up and says “you’re on your own now. go look at Perl docs.”  
Not very useful. Still looking for a thorough treatment…

Just my two cents…