# Survey Invitation : Ruby + GUI **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 19, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/survey-invitation-ruby-gui/153668 "2008-11-19T23:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/absolute-beginner)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/survey-invitation-ruby-gui/153668/1 "2008-11-19T23:45:48Z")
Everyone’s invited to take part in a short survey on using Ruby for GUI programming; I’d be grateful for 5 or 10 minutes of your time at: [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=o2UwH3KcrOyLxKsh8mOJMg\_3d\_3d](http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=o2UwH3KcrOyLxKsh8mOJMg_3d_3d) Even if you never do GUI programming in Ruby, please take a minute to respond, as it’s interesting to know why people aren’t using Ruby for this as well as why people are. Non-GUI programmers get a very quick version of the survey. The survey should take no more than 5-10 minutes to complete. That’s unless you have a lot of things you want to get off your chest in the comment boxes - which you’re welcome to do too. All the answers are anonymous. The survey will run for two weeks, after which the results will be posted on the web, with a notice here. The anonymised raw data will also be made available to those who are interested. The background to this is that there are sporadic threads on GUI programming on this group, but little overall picture of Ruby GUI usage emerges. New options for GUI development have emerged in recent year. I’m interested to know who’s doing what, and how Ruby could be a better language for these kind of applications. Thank you to Rubyists who commented on earlier drafts of the survey. Please feel free to forward the survey link to relevant mailing lists etc. Thanks for your support. alex ---
**Author:** ![absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/absolute-beginner)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/survey-invitation-ruby-gui/153668/2 "2008-11-20T04:15:03Z")
Alex F. wrote: > Thank you to Rubyists who commented on earlier drafts of the survey. > Please feel free to forward the survey link to relevant mailing lists > etc. > > Thanks for your support. Done - it’s a nice list of questions you have there! Cheers, Mohit. 11/20/2008 | 11:12 AM. ---
**Author:** ![absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/absolute-beginner)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 9:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/survey-invitation-ruby-gui/153668/3 "2009-01-14T09:36:16Z")
On Nov 19 2008, 11:43 pm, Alex F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Everyone’s invited to take part in a short survey on using Ruby for GUI > programming […] > > Thesurveywill run for two weeks, after > which the results will be posted on the web, with a notice here. The > anonymised raw data will also be made available to those who are interested. Were the results ever published? ---
**Author:** ![absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/absolute-beginner)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/survey-invitation-ruby-gui/153668/4 "2008-11-21T23:02:26Z")
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 07:41:17AM +0900, Alex F. wrote: > Everyone’s invited to take part in a short survey on using Ruby for GUI > programming; I’d be grateful for 5 or 10 minutes of your time at: > > [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=o2UwH3KcrOyLxKsh8mOJMg\_3d\_3d](http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=o2UwH3KcrOyLxKsh8mOJMg_3d_3d) Pretty good survey, in my opinion. Relatively simple and painless. I didn’t see any assumptions or biases really built into the survey, from my brief experience with it. At the end, it says to click “next” to finish the survey, but the relevant button is actually labeled “done”. ---
**Author:** ![absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/absolute-beginner)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/survey-invitation-ruby-gui/153668/5 "2009-01-15T10:00:58Z")
Lars C. wrote: > Were the results ever published? > Sorry, I got caught up in other work and haven’t finished writing up the > results. I’ll publish at least the main findings and raw numbers within > a week. cheers alex ---
**Author:** ![absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@absolute-beginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/absolute-beginner)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/survey-invitation-ruby-gui/153668/6 "2009-01-14T09:48:45Z")
Lars C. wrote: > Were the results ever published? I was wondering the same thing yesterday 😉