# How to develop cool GUI with Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-develop-cool-gui-with-ruby/106293>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 8, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-develop-cool-gui-with-ruby/106293 "2007-06-08T05:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@jwing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jwing)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-develop-cool-gui-with-ruby/106293/1 "2007-06-08T05:29:17Z")

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Hi All,

Which is the best RAD tool for Ruby to dev cool GUI program?

Can use glade to design the GUI, then save the design as glade.xml, use  
glade-ruby to load the xml, parse it, invoke with TK?

Is there any example for this? (I don’t want to start with TK, manually  
edit  
with GUI code part …)

Thanks,  
Jim

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**Author:** ![jwing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@jwing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jwing)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 6:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-develop-cool-gui-with-ruby/106293/2 "2007-06-08T06:34:21Z")

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Jim Z. wrote:

> Thanks,  
> Jim

[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyZilla](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyZilla)

> **[The source of https://ruby-gnome.github.io/](https://ruby-gnome.github.io/)**
>
> The source of https://ruby-gnome.github.io/

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**Author:** ![jwing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@jwing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jwing)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 8:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-develop-cool-gui-with-ruby/106293/3 "2007-06-08T08:57:32Z")

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Hello,

You can use Qt Designer if you use QtRuby.

–  
Pau Garcia i Quiles  
[http://www.elpauer.org](http://www.elpauer.org)  
(Due to the amount of work, I usually need 10 days to answer)

Quoting Jim Z. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

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**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-develop-cool-gui-with-ruby/106293/4 "2007-06-08T08:58:32Z")

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I just see the ruby-zilla demo, very cool 🙂

Thanks,  
Jim

2007/6/8, Reid T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> > manually edit  
> > with GUI code part …)
> > 
> > Thanks,  
> > Jim
> 
> [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyZilla](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyZilla)
> 
> [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/)

–  
Best regards,

Jim Z.

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**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 10:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-develop-cool-gui-with-ruby/106293/5 "2007-06-08T10:18:42Z")

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There is also the Zerenity library.  
[http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse\_thread/thread/35af562fd1fa2efa](http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/35af562fd1fa2efa)

I haven’t used it much, but it was really quick to get something basic  
up and running.

Gustav P.

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**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-develop-cool-gui-with-ruby/106293/6 "2007-06-08T10:57:47Z")

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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:17:34PM +0900, Gustav P. wrote:

> There is also the Zerenity library.  
> [http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse\_thread/thread/35af562fd1fa2efa](http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/35af562fd1fa2efa)
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> I haven’t used it much, but it was really quick to get something basic  
> up and running.

There’s always Xdialog, too, I suppose. Nice and simple, if your needs  
are simple too.