# Rails gui?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-gui/151385>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 20, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-gui/151385 "2008-10-20T22:14:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnny)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-gui/151385/1 "2008-10-20T22:14:28Z")

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I like the ease of use that ruby on rails provides. But before I  
switch over completely from [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET), I would like to know what sort of  
gui’s are available for rubyonrails.

I like the [asp.net](http://asp.net) webparts. With webparts, I can divide the website  
into zones and then put modules into those zones. The user can then  
edit those modules and move them around. It makes everything very  
easy for the user and for myself when programming.

Is there any way to do something similar with rubyonrails? Are there  
any gui’s out there for sale or free that I can experiment with?

Thanks,  
John

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**Author:** ![johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnny)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-gui/151385/2 "2008-10-21T18:15:16Z")

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John,

Rails is a young framework and is not targeted at the gui audience.  
There are many good IDE’s like Netbeans, but not gui tools like  
Dreamweaver. If you must deal with people who can only work with the  
gui type interfaces, my suggestion is that you stay with ASP. You  
might be able to build a web interface to standard modules that you  
create using Prototype & Scriptaculous, but basically this means you  
are building the gui tool yourself.  
Good luck!

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**Author:** ![johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnny)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-gui/151385/3 "2008-10-21T18:52:22Z")

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DrMark wrote:

> John,
> 
> Rails is a young framework and is not targeted at the gui audience.  
> There are many good IDE’s like Netbeans, but not gui tools like  
> Dreamweaver.

Not quite true 😉

Ruby In Steel Developer is unique in providing a full drag-and-drop  
design environment for Rails (‘The Visual Rails Workbench’). It can also  
import/export page designs to other editors such as Dreamweaver and  
handle the translation between full HTML pages and multiple ERb  
templates. We have lots of information, tutorials and screencasts  
showing its capabilities - for an overview, take a look here:

[http://www.sapphiresteel.com/GUI-Drag-and-Drop-Development-For](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/GUI-Drag-and-Drop-Development-For)

best wishes  
Huw C.

SapphireSteel Software  
Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio  
[http://www.sapphiresteel.com](http://www.sapphiresteel.com)