# Widget

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/widget/189918>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 9, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/widget/189918 "2010-06-09T23:34:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![teknopartz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@teknopartz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/teknopartz)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/widget/189918/1 "2010-06-09T23:34:31Z")

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I am very new to Ruby.

Is there a way to create a Windows Widget that resides on a desktop and  
allows direct access to a database…

For instance

I can enter name and email on my desktop and hit submit. It will then be  
directed to an existing database?

I am trying to create a email database with ease of use for the  
consumer?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![teknopartz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@teknopartz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/teknopartz)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/widget/189918/2 "2010-06-10T00:19:03Z")

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Jeremy A. wrote:

> I am very new to Ruby.
> 
> Is there a way to create a Windows Widget that resides on a desktop and  
> allows direct access to a database…
> 
> For instance
> 
> I can enter name and email on my desktop and hit submit. It will then be  
> directed to an existing database?
> 
> I am trying to create a email database with ease of use for the  
> consumer?
> 
> Thanks

This might get a better answer if it was posted on the Ruby forum. This  
is the “Ruby on Rails” which is a little bit more specific.

I don’t know about Windows as far as making something that sits on your  
desktop that you can click and have it start up, etc. The rest of the  
task of getting input and putting it into a database is fairly easy to  
do with Ruby and one of the “ORMs” which is the glue code between Ruby  
and the database engines.