# Ruby GUI under JRuby and NetBeans - A cry for help!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gui-under-jruby-and-netbeans-a-cry-for-help/139973>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 9, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gui-under-jruby-and-netbeans-a-cry-for-help/139973 "2008-06-09T18:39:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ribes)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gui-under-jruby-and-netbeans-a-cry-for-help/139973/1 "2008-06-09T18:39:13Z")

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Team,

Yesterday I got JRuby with its myriad requirements working under MS  
Windows  
XP. Once I understand this environment well I will install it under AIX.  
The main reason, perhaps the only reason why I want this to work is to  
be  
able to do easy GUI design with drag/drop with NetBeans, as was  
suggested on  
this forum.  
NetBeans actually has a nice tutorial (_GUI Building in NetBeans IDE  
5.0_),  
which I followed, but for Java.  
I can’t see to find similar tutorial for Ruby. Matter of fact I tried to  
follow the Java Tutorial but for Ruby but very quickly you know that you  
can’t do that.

Is there any tutorial for Ruby like the one provided for Java for the  
environment described above?

Thank you

Victor

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gui-under-jruby-and-netbeans-a-cry-for-help/139973/2 "2008-06-09T22:43:23Z")

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Victor R. wrote:

> Is there any tutorial for Ruby like the one provided for Java for the  
> environment described above?

You might be interested in this project:

[http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org/](http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org/)

They have some tutorials there.

-Brian

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**Author:** ![ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ribes)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gui-under-jruby-and-netbeans-a-cry-for-help/139973/3 "2008-06-11T00:40:45Z")

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On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Brian Moelk wrote:

> -Brian  
> Yes in fact we added some new tutorials today that takes you through  
> installing and configuring Netbeans all the way through “Hello World”  
> packaged up for distribution to an end user.

David K.

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gui-under-jruby-and-netbeans-a-cry-for-help/139973/4 "2008-06-11T01:51:37Z")

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:39 AM, David K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> > They have some tutorials there.
> > 
> > -Brian
> 
> Yes in fact we added some new tutorials today that takes you through  
> installing and configuring Netbeans all the way through “Hello World”  
> packaged up for distribution to an end user.

Aha, I see it’s been updated! Thanks for that!

Les