# Please, help to start... for a desktop application

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-to-start-for-a-desktop-application/155562>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 13, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-to-start-for-a-desktop-application/155562 "2008-12-13T15:18:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![wslt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ac91a4/32.png) [@wslt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wslt)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-to-start-for-a-desktop-application/155562/1 "2008-12-13T15:18:52Z")

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Hello everybody,

I would really like to start the best way. I studied some Java in the  
past but when I met ruby I really loved it, and now I should like to  
learn and do well.

Could you help me suggesting your favorite way for a desktop  
application? I would be happy to hear from you…

Let me tell you about the application I would need…

It’s a desktop application for management which…

- should be a “window” application for data-insert, and for producing  
and managing documentation starting based on those data
- client/server
- producing (and viewing) pdf (maybe doc/odt) reports which should be  
saved locally and uploaded via ftp
- installable as compiled on windows (and may be in the future on  
linux/mac)
- hem, it would released as proprietary code…
- should be “protected” with activation code (this is very important)  
and/or periodic check through a connection to a server

I know that proprietary code is not very adherent to ruby philosophy…  
but I hope that new applications could anyway help the spreading of the  
language… Maybe that different technologies could be considered for a  
proprietary code, but I really like ruby…

I hope my questions are asked in the right manner and communicate the  
right feeling, English is not my original language…

Thank you very much

wslt