# Monkeybars 0.4 - GUI apps for Ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 9:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/monkeybars-0-4-gui-apps-for-ruby/115060 "2007-09-20T09:08:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ntk)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/monkeybars-0-4-gui-apps-for-ruby/115060/1 "2007-09-20T09:08:22Z")
Monkeybars 0.4 is out. [http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org](http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org) This is the first real public release of the library but it is relatively stable. Monkeybars is a library for building Swing applications via JRuby with an emphasis on allowing you to use graphical editor and to keep your code in an easily testable state. David K. ---
**Author:** ![ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ntk)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/monkeybars-0-4-gui-apps-for-ruby/115060/2 "2007-09-23T12:03:07Z")
David K. wrote: > Monkeybars 0.4 is out. [http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org](http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org) This is the > first real public release of the library but it is relatively stable. > Monkeybars is a library for building Swing applications via JRuby with > an emphasis on allowing you to use graphical editor and to keep your > code in an easily testable state. Wow, cool. At a glance it looks like “yet another Swing library” for JRuby, but you seem to have actually put in some MVC (or at least VC) smarts to allow offloading the component model to external tools. We’ll probably include your approach in our JAOO talk, since it’s a good view into “another way” to think about JRuby + Swing. - Charlie