# Ruby and .NET **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 9, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164 "2006-03-09T19:46:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164/1 "2006-03-09T19:46:19Z")
I’ve written a couple Ruby programs that run on Linux using ruby-gnome2 as the GUI toolkit. Say I get asked to port them over to Windows (2000 and up). How would I go about slapping a .NET GUI frontend on it? (I’m assuming using .NET is the way to go these days) Joe ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164/2 "2006-03-09T19:49:23Z")
Joe Van D. wrote: > I’ve written a couple Ruby programs that run on Linux using > ruby-gnome2 as the GUI toolkit. Say I get asked to port them over to > Windows (2000 and up). > > How would I go about slapping a .NET GUI frontend on it? (I’m > assuming using .NET is the way to go these days) > > Joe Check out [http://rubydotnet.sourceforge.net/](http://rubydotnet.sourceforge.net/). ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164/3 "2006-03-09T20:04:34Z")
The progress on John L.'s Ruby to .NET bridge is much further along. I would look into that. John has done some impressive stuff: > **[John Lam's Blog](https://www.iunknown.com/)** > > Since 1997 Michael ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164/4 "2006-03-09T20:19:44Z")
Joe Van D. wrote: > I’ve written a couple Ruby programs that run on Linux using > ruby-gnome2 as the GUI toolkit. Say I get asked to port them over to > Windows (2000 and up). > > How would I go about slapping a .NET GUI frontend on it? (I’m > assuming using .NET is the way to go these days) Joe, just curious why you wouldn’t just use the Windows version of Ruby-Gtk2? Is it because of look&feel? If it’s stability concerns, I’ve written a couple of Ruby-Gtk2 apps that run on Windows every day and my users report no problems. Jamey ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164/5 "2006-03-09T20:07:36Z")
Let me clarify, when I originally looked at it. I haven’t checked out rubydotnet in a while. Michael ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164/6 "2006-03-09T23:04:59Z")
My RubyCLR bridge should let you do what you’re looking for - the drop that’s out there in circulation now has a simple RSS reader built as a Windows Forms 2.0 application. I’ve also built a non-trivial 3D Avalon (WPF) app using an earlier version of the bridge, although I’m just revisiting that stuff now. The current drop is almost 3 weeks old - it’s about due for a refresh 🙂 My private builds now have a ton of new features; off the top of my head there is: - support for interfaces - a lot of really cool Reflection features to make prototyping .NET code in irb _much_ nicer - a ton of perf and reliability work; 80% of the C++ part of the bridge was re-written. - much better support for a few data binding scenarios (such as data binding against native Ruby arrays) - support for generics (I don’t resolve method overloads against generic types correctly now - I’m punting that to the next release) - proper support for array creation -John > **[John Lam's Blog](https://www.iunknown.com/)** > > Since 1997 ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164/7 "2006-03-10T00:24:22Z")
On 3/9/06, Florian Groß [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Jamey C. wrote: > > > Joe, just curious why you wouldn’t just use the Windows version of > > Ruby-Gtk2? Is it because of look&feel? > > > > If it’s stability concerns, I’ve written a couple of Ruby-Gtk2 apps that > > run on Windows every day and my users report no problems. > > Look&Feel are pretty much OK as well if you change the GTK renderer to WIMP. Hm… I’ll have to see how ruby-gnome2 operates on Windows. I really prefer native GUI toolkits though. I’d probably design a Windows UI completely different than a Linux UI (and also probably different on OS X). ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-net/79164/8 "2006-03-09T20:47:20Z")
Jamey C. wrote: > Joe, just curious why you wouldn’t just use the Windows version of > Ruby-Gtk2? Is it because of look&feel? > > If it’s stability concerns, I’ve written a couple of Ruby-Gtk2 apps that > run on Windows every day and my users report no problems. Look&Feel are pretty much OK as well if you change the GTK renderer to WIMP.