# Looking for reference for Ruby/Tk and Ruby/MySQL **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 15, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753 "2006-09-15T02:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753/1 "2006-09-15T02:07:20Z")
Good evening, I need to create an app that will use Ruby/TK and Ruby/MySql. It will be a standalone pc app… I’m going thru the “Pickaxe” book…and it contains a chapter on Tk - but I’m looking for a good reference that covers Ruby and Tk in greater detail. I’ll be doing a lot of mathematical curve drawing [ie, plotting some statistical functions]. The “Pickaxe” doesn’t cover databases…I’m particularly interested in using MySQL with Ruby. I prefer textbooks… Will someone make a recommendation. THX, Pat ---
**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753/2 "2006-09-15T04:10:56Z")
Patrick L. wrote: > The “Pickaxe” doesn’t cover databases…I’m particularly interested in > using MySQL with Ruby. > > I prefer textbooks… > > Will someone make a recommendation. > > THX, > Pat I can’t help you on MySQL – I’m a PostgreSQL fanatic. As far as Ruby Tk, the recommendation in the Pickaxe book is to pick up “Mastering Perl/Tk” and just convert to Ruby. You’ll also find lots of examples in Tcl when you load Tcl and Tk to port to Ruby. That said, unless you need Windows support, I’d recommend QTRuby. The documentation is much better than what’s available for _Ruby_ Tk, especially if you consider the Pragmatic Programmers’ “Friday” series PDF book. I think the QT widgets look prettier than the Tk widgets as well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753/3 "2006-09-15T18:02:55Z")
Patrick L. wrote: > Good evening, > … > Will someone make a recommendation. This link has Ruby/TK class descriptions, but not much how-to info: [http://www.jbrowse.com/text/rubytk\_en.html](http://www.jbrowse.com/text/rubytk_en.html) Cheers ---
**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753/4 "2006-09-15T18:12:56Z")
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Patrick L. wrote: ``` [...] ``` > but I’m looking for a good reference that covers Ruby and Tk in greater To quote my ruby page [1]: Resources for Tk include [Ruby/Tk Tutorial](http://httpd.chello.nl/k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/); a three part article by Christopher Roach - parts [1](http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/06/25/ruby_pt1.html), [2](http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/23/ruby_pt1.html) and [3](http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/27/ruby_pt3.html); [Ruby-Tk FAQ](http://approximity.com/ruby/rubytk.html); and [Ruby/Tk classes and Modules](http://www.jbrowse.com/text/rubytk_en.html). ``` HTH Hugh ``` [1] Sorry if that sounds egotistical, it’s just that it explains the format, and from where I dug out the info. If you really want the url it’s [http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/](http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/) ---
**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753/5 "2006-09-16T17:54:45Z")
From: Patrick L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Subject: Looking for reference for Ruby/Tk and Ruby/MySQL Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:08:06 +0900 Message-ID: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > I’m going thru the “Pickaxe” book…and it contains a chapter on Tk - On “Pickaxe” book, “command” option of TkScrollbar and yscrollcommand option of the scrolled widget are used for scrolling. Of course, that has no problem except bothering you. However, Ruby/Tk supports “xscrolbar” method and “yscrollbar” method for scrollable widgets. Those methods make such relationship between a widget and a scrollbar. ## ------------------------------------------------- list\_w = TkListbox.new(frame, ‘selectmode’ =\> ‘single’) scroll\_bar = TkScrollbar.new(frame, ‘command’ =\> proc { |\*args| list\_w.yview \*args }) scroll\_bar.pack(‘side’ =\> ‘left’, ‘fill’ =\> ‘y’) list\_w.yscrollcommand(proc { |first,last| scroll\_bar.set(first,last) }) ## | v -----\----------------------------------------- list\_w = TkListbox.new(frame, ‘selectmode’=\>‘single’) list\_w.yscrollbar(TkScrollbar.new(frame).pack(‘side’=\>‘left’, ‘fill’=\>‘y’)) If you want to scroll simultaneously some listboxes by one scrollbar, TkScrollbar#assign method may help you. Please see the example “ext/tk/sample/tkmultilistframe.rb” on your Ruby source tree. > ``` > I'll be doing a lot of mathematical curve drawing [ie, plotting > > ``` > > some statistical functions]. Ruby/Tk can support many (almost all) of graph libraries which can work with Tcl/Tk. Even if there is no Ruby/Tk’s wrapper for such graph library, Ruby/Tk can call Tcl/Tk’s commands to control the library with Tk.tk\_call. If 2D graphs are enough for your purpose, BLT extension may be suitable. ---
**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753/6 "2006-09-22T12:17:07Z")
Patrick L. wrote: > Good evening, > > I need to create an app that will use Ruby/TK and Ruby/MySql. > It will be a standalone pc app… > > I’m going thru the “Pickaxe” book…and it contains a chapter on Tk - > but I’m looking for a good reference that covers Ruby and Tk in greater > detail. I’ll be doing a lot of mathematical curve drawing [ie, plotting > some statistical functions]. > > The “Pickaxe” doesn’t cover databases…I’m particularly interested in > using MySQL with Ruby. > > I prefer textbooks… > > Will someone make a recommendation. > > THX, > Pat I’m ok now with Tcl/Tk… However, I’m still baffled by connecting Rudy to MySql… I tried downloading Gem but couldn’t get past the question requesting what I wanted to install…the list contained about 30 items…each numbered…I replied with a 2 but it was rejected… It looks like DBI is another way to go… I’d appreicate any advice. Thanks, Pat ---
**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753/7 "2006-09-22T21:45:46Z")
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Patrick L. wrote: > > > > > > > > I’m ok now with Tcl/Tk… > > Pat > > Some of the gems have two versions – a source version for those folks > like me who run a Gnu/Linux platform, and a pre-compiled Windows > version. And if the gem has multiple version numbers, there will be two > choices for each of those. So in general: > > 1. If you’re on Windows, pick the “mswin” version, otherwise, pick the > source version. > 2. Unless you have reasons to use an older version, pick the most recent > one. > 3. If you did _that_ and “got rejected”, file a bug report with the > package maintainer. Ed, Thanks for the ‘heads up’…I’ll try this again over the weekend… Good weekend, Pat ---
**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-reference-for-ruby-tk-and-ruby-mysql/68753/8 "2006-09-22T15:53:19Z")
Patrick L. wrote: > > > > I’m ok now with Tcl/Tk… > Pat Some of the gems have two versions – a source version for those folks like me who run a Gnu/Linux platform, and a pre-compiled Windows version. And if the gem has multiple version numbers, there will be two choices for each of those. So in general: 1. If you’re on Windows, pick the “mswin” version, otherwise, pick the source version. 2. Unless you have reasons to use an older version, pick the most recent one. 3. If you did _that_ and “got rejected”, file a bug report with the package maintainer.