# Re: Recommendation for Simple GUI Development **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 27, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-recommendation-for-simple-gui-development/83605 "2007-01-27T15:54:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lycanthrope](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@lycanthrope](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lycanthrope)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-recommendation-for-simple-gui-development/83605/1 "2007-01-27T15:54:48Z")
Apologies if this ends up being a duplicated – Seems like posts from me the past couple of days have been being redirected \>/dev/null or something… Trying from a different account. On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:15 +0900, billbell52 wrote: > I am looking for a quick easy GUI development capability that runs on > both Windows and Linux. Today, I am using Excel’s VBA to create a > GUI > and using that to control running the Ruby scipts. It is a simple > 20 > minute job to create a GUI to control different Ruby scripts and I > use > Excel to report back results. I would like to have the same > solution > that runs on Linux and Windows. I thought I would use QT4 from > Trolltech. They have a nice GUI development environment that allows > you to quickly develop a GUI but I cannot find any Ruby GEM that > binds > QT4 to Ruby on the PC - so no go. I looked at some other solutions > but > all of the them seem to required a lot of development time to create > the GUI. > > I need widgets like a tabbed panel, listbox, combobox, optionbox, > checkbox, textbox > > Any other recommendations? Ruby-GNOME2 && glade for windows [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?ruby-glade-create-template](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?ruby-glade-create-template)