# Source code from complex user interfaces RUBY GTK **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 12, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399 "2008-05-12T20:56:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/1 "2008-05-12T20:56:18Z")
Hi, I’ve just started creating user interfaces with Ruby GTK and I would like to know where can I find source code of complete interfaces, examples and stuff, to learn to use all the features. My program should have a window with all the normal options (File, Edit, Help, etc); I would like to know where can I find source code from programs made this way. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/2 "2008-05-12T21:33:42Z")
Hello John, I’ve particularly liked Hal F.'s Ruby Way (there’s a second edition ) and the Ruby Cookbook. I think both are available on Safari, eg. > **[O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](https://www.oreilly.com/)** > > Gain technology and business knowledge and hone your skills with learning resources created and curated by O'Reilly's experts: live online training, video, books, our platform has content from 200+ of the world's best publishers. Best regards, Axel ---
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/3 "2008-05-12T22:33:52Z")
But I do have to pay for that :S? ---
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/4 "2008-05-12T23:04:19Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John L. wrote: | But I do have to pay for that :S? Well, yeah. Otherwise, The Ruby-GNOME2 project page has examples, too, and a handful of tutorials. You get what you pay for, though. 😕 * * * Phillip G. Twitter: [twitter.com/cynicalryan](http://twitter.com/cynicalryan) Blog: [http://justarubyist.blogspot.com](http://justarubyist.blogspot.com) ~ “The intrepid Spaceman Spiff is stranded on a distant planet! ~ …our hero ruefully acknowledges that this happens fairly ~ frequently…” — Calvin and Hobbes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org](http://enigmail.mozdev.org) iEYEARECAAYFAkgosLQACgkQbtAgaoJTgL8riQCeILYQ1JlIbVYGmdLQo+nuwfC/ bcMAoIVv3bHZhjF3n+Uh9MAaUL/rtjiA =g5bH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/5 "2008-05-12T23:26:08Z")
I’m not sure a book is the best choice. You don’t know what’s in the book. Maybe it’s a nominal section about the library, nothing more. You can use ‘gem’ to search for gems that depend on that GUI library. Then you’ll have plenty of examples. ---
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/6 "2008-05-13T00:10:46Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Albert S. wrote: | You can use ‘gem’ to search for gems that depend on that GUI library. | Then you’ll have plenty of examples. Except Ruby-GNOME2 isn’t distributed as gem, and thus gems cannot depend on it (an install would fail, since the dependency cannot be satisfied). * * * Phillip G. Twitter: [twitter.com/cynicalryan](http://twitter.com/cynicalryan) Blog: [http://justarubyist.blogspot.com](http://justarubyist.blogspot.com) ~ - You know you’ve been hacking too long when… …a fly lands on the screen and you try to pick it up with the mouse and put it in the onscreen trashcan! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org](http://enigmail.mozdev.org) iEYEARECAAYFAkgowEwACgkQbtAgaoJTgL+o4QCfcK77puEtwqyhgnB5QLpq0BpZ mv0An1GYznl6lUQlpNAz/mg3C5+1Uim2 =3zal -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/7 "2008-05-13T13:06:49Z")
Phillip G. wrote: > Albert S. wrote: > > | You can use ‘gem’ to search for gems that depend on that GUI library. > | Then you’ll have plenty of examples. > > Except Ruby-GNOME2 isn’t distributed as gem, and thus gems cannot depend > on it (an install would fail, since the dependency cannot be satisfied). On the one hand you say packages don’t depend on some non-existing GNOME2 gem. On the other hand you say the install would fail because the (non-existing!) dependency cannot be satisfied… ---
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/8 "2008-05-13T13:55:37Z")
> My program should have a window with all the normal options (File, Edit, > Help, etc); I would like to know where can I find source code from > programs made this way. The best way is to - use krugle to search for specific ruby-gnome constructs - look at the wiki (it has a LOT of knowledge buried) - find some examples on the www In a way you shouldnt worry too much, just make a little todo list what you want to achieve. The smaller, the easier it can be solved. And you can use the mailing list for the ruby-gtk folks too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@focdesoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/focdesoc)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-code-from-complex-user-interfaces-ruby-gtk/137399/9 "2008-05-13T16:45:33Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Albert S. wrote: | | On the one hand you say packages don’t depend on some non-existing | GNOME2 gem. Yes. | On the other hand you say the install would fail because the | (non-existing!) dependency cannot be satisfied… If a gem would depended on a dependency that cannot be satisfied, yes. There’s a reason I used the _subjunctive_ in that case: To answer the question ‘imagine if that were possible’, as Raymond Chen would put it. * * * Phillip G. Twitter: [twitter.com/cynicalryan](http://twitter.com/cynicalryan) Blog: [http://justarubyist.blogspot.com](http://justarubyist.blogspot.com) YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. ~ – Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary” -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org](http://enigmail.mozdev.org) iEYEARECAAYFAkgpqVkACgkQbtAgaoJTgL9z5QCghuw2dKY8FXV9Elz4+eentM8c ZrIAoI/pIfz4TGNHQ6u0nZqu5biBVHGN =Huno -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----