# RAD ( Rapid Application Development)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 22, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621 "2006-09-22T13:04:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gugui)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621/1 "2006-09-22T13:04:26Z")

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Hi all ! is there a tool like a Glade, Delphi, Qt3 Design to work with  
Ruby ?  
thanks !

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**Author:** ![gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gugui)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621/2 "2006-09-22T13:10:58Z")

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Try Eclipse.

However, are you looking for a GUI designer as well?

- Mark

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**Author:** ![gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gugui)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621/3 "2006-09-22T13:14:59Z")

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Mark A. Richman wrote:

> Try Eclipse.
> 
> However, are you looking for a GUI designer as well?
> 
> - Mark

Yeah, GUI designer ! I will try Eclipse !  
thanks a lot

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**Author:** ![gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gugui)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621/4 "2006-09-22T13:43:04Z")

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> > > sender: “Luiz M.” date: “Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:15:02PM +0900” \<\<\<EOQ  
> > > Mark A. Richman wrote:  
> > > Try Eclipse.
> > 
> > However, are you looking for a GUI designer as well?
> > 
> > - Mark
> 
> Yeah, GUI designer ! I will try Eclipse !  
> thanks a lot  
> You can try Komodo then. Has a very nice GUI designer for Tk fully  
> integrated with Ruby. It looks just like Delphi, and just like Delphi  
> it costs money too 🙂 But it’s still very nice.

Cheers,  
Alex

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**Author:** ![gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gugui)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621/5 "2006-09-22T15:35:17Z")

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:04:29PM +0900, Luiz M. wrote:

> Hi all ! is there a tool like a Glade, Delphi, Qt3 Design to work with  
> Ruby ?  
> thanks !  
> Yes, for example, Glade 😉 (Gotta love XML UI descriptions)

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**Author:** ![gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gugui)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621/6 "2006-09-22T15:47:19Z")

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Luiz M. wrote:

> Hi all ! is there a tool like a Glade, Delphi, Qt3 Design to work with  
> Ruby ?  
> thanks !

On Linux, try KDevelop, Korundum, Kommander and QTRuby. All of them can  
do what QT Designer can do. You’ll pretty much be installing all of the  
KDE desktop to get that, so you get a desktop for free. 🙂

I don’t know about Macs if you need portability. Windows will be there  
when most of this magic works with QT4, but till then, if you need  
Windows, you’ll need to pick some other tool chain.

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**Author:** ![gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gugui)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621/7 "2006-09-22T13:24:59Z")

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Luiz M. wrote:

> Mark A. Richman wrote:
> 
> > Try Eclipse.
> > 
> > However, are you looking for a GUI designer as well?
> > 
> > - Mark
> 
> Yeah, GUI designer ! I will try Eclipse !  
> thanks a lot

I believe rubygtk can use Glade’s output directly, but it’s still on my  
list of things to try out so I can’t show you code, unfortunately…  
Something to look into, anyway.

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**Author:** ![gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gugui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gugui)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rad-rapid-application-development/69621/8 "2006-09-22T17:15:39Z")

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Hi,

> I believe rubygtk can use Glade’s output directly, but it’s still on my  
> list of things to try out so I can’t show you code, unfortunately…  
> Something to look into, anyway.

Yes you can.  
@glade = GladeXML.new(‘path/to/gladefile’) { |handler| method(handler)  
}

-Mitchell;