Problem with Tcl/Tk in Ruby

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Hi,

I am a Ruby newbie... I use Mac OS X Tiger and tried building a simple Tcl/Tk widget and received an error message...

I copied and pasted the code's source listing, compilation process, and error message into the body of this e-mail:

Raven:/Developer/RubyEclipseWorkspace untz$ cat iPsych.rb
require 'tk'

root = TkRoot.new { title "iPsych" }
TkLabel.new(root) {
   text 'Hello, World!'
   pack { padx 15 ; pady 15; side 'left' }
}
Tk.mainloopRaven:/Developer/RubyEclipseWorkspace untz$ ruby iPsych.rb
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
   Referenced from: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0/tcltklib.bundle
   Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap
Raven:/Developer/RubyEclipseWorkspace untz$

Additional questions:

1. What is the *BEST* IDE to use for Ruby?

2. What is the standard Widget utility to use?

Many, many thanks!

-Unnsse

P.S. BTW the particular Ruby version I use is 1.8.2

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I am a Ruby newbie... I use Mac OS X Tiger and tried building a
simple Tcl/Tk widget and received an error message...

    (snip)

Tk.mainloopRaven:/Developer/RubyEclipseWorkspace untz$ ruby iPsych.rb
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib

Probably, your tcltklib is compiled to use X Window System.
If you want to use Tcl/Tk framework,
you have to give --enable-mac-tcltk-framework configure option.
However, on Mac OS X Tiger, ext/tcltklib/extconf.rb fails to
find Tcl/Tk framework because of change of framework directory.
Please change "/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/" and
"/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/" on ext/tcltklib/extconf.rb
to "/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/" and
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/".
After that, remove old ext/tcltklib/Makefile,
configure --enable-mac-tcltk-framework, and recompile it.

If you don't mind to get source files from CVS,
please get the latest version of ruby_1_8 branch
(and read ext/tcltklib/README.1st).
On the latest version, the problem and some other bugs are fixed.

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From: Unnsse Khan <untzkhan@yahoo.com>
Subject: Problem with Tcl/Tk in Ruby
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:44:07 +0900
Message-ID: <BAY103-DAV2273B1B0EED1966420370DA9C0@phx.gbl>,<E7A89D05-6671-4145-B099-921F0B5B2172@yahoo.com>
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