Ruby + GUI?

pete4 · 30 November 2007 03:30

Hi-

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Thanks for your inputs.

Piyush_Ranjan · 30 November 2007 06:48

shoes

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On Nov 30, 2007 9:00 AM, pete <peterbattaglia@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi-

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Thanks for your inputs.

Jeremy_McAnally1 · 30 November 2007 07:00

I like Shoes a lot if you need something simple.

If you need something better, then I think perhaps fxRuby (if you
don't need a native look) or wxRuby (if you do) are your best options.
Ruby/Tk is okay if you like Tk and all, but I personally prefer the
previous kits.

--Jeremy

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On Nov 29, 2007 10:30 PM, pete <peterbattaglia@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi-

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Thanks for your inputs.

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Jonas_Roberto_de_Go1 · 30 November 2007 11:22

pete wrote:

Hi-

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Thanks for your inputs.

Hi pete, Ruby + GNOME2 [1], for me, is the best way for create
GUI/standalone applications.

[1] http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/

I already tested this, and approved I like more this then Java.

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David_and_Sharon_Phi · 30 November 2007 12:02

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?

I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby (yep, the world needs another swing framework :), but then I quite like Swing...
currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to corresponding fields a Personnel object.)

class PersonnelView < EntityView
based_on :personnel

   heading "Edit Personnel"
   label :fullname,
             :when_blank => '[unknown]',
             :desc => 'Full name'
   text :firstname
   text :surname
   drop_down :security_status,
             :select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top Secret']
   check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
             :desc => 'agreement signed?'
   drop_down :contract_role,
             :select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
   memo :comments,
             :height => 6
end

Cheers,
Dave

pete4 · 30 November 2007 14:20

Great! Thanks everyone. All I really wanted was a good starting
place, it seems there's a lot of options out there and I'm pretty
limited on time to get this project done.

This project in particular will be on Windows (sorry), but I'm also a
Linux user and most of the development I do is in the Linux
environment. I'll take alook at all of these and see what best fits
for my app.

Thanks again!

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On Nov 30, 5:02 am, Sharon Phillips <phillip...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?

I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby
(yep, the world needs another swing framework :), but then I quite
like Swing...
currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to
corresponding fields a Personnel object.)

class PersonnelView < EntityView
   based_on :personnel

   heading "Edit Personnel"
   label :fullname,
             :when_blank => '[unknown]',
             :desc => 'Full name'
   text :firstname
   text :surname
   drop_down :security_status,
             :select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top
Secret']
   check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
             :desc => 'agreement signed?'
   drop_down :contract_role,
             :select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
   memo :comments,
             :height => 6
end

Cheers,
Dave

Charles_Oliver_Nutte · 30 November 2007 16:39

Sharon Phillips wrote:

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?

I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby (yep, the world needs another swing framework :), but then I quite like Swing...
currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to corresponding fields a Personnel object.)

class PersonnelView < EntityView
  based_on :personnel

  heading "Edit Personnel"
  label :fullname,
            :when_blank => '[unknown]',
            :desc => 'Full name'
  text :firstname
  text :surname
  drop_down :security_status,
            :select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top Secret']
  check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
            :desc => 'agreement signed?'
  drop_down :contract_role,
            :select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
  memo :comments,
            :height => 6
end

Looks slick.

To pete: Lately it seems like lots of folks are settling on JRuby+Swing for cross-platform GUI stuff in Ruby. One binary basically runs anywhere without recompile or modification. That would be my recommendation.

- Charlie

Kyle_Schmitt · 30 November 2007 14:44

PSst. this question is asked probably once a week a quick search of
the archives will give you lots and lots of information, links,
personal opinions etc.

...mind you I've been guilty too of asking such repeated and
repeatable questions....

--Kyle

Jonas_Roberto_de_Go1 · 30 November 2007 15:11

Hi,

pete wrote:

What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?

I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby
(yep, the world needs another swing framework :), but then I quite
like Swing...
currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to
corresponding fields a Personnel object.)

class PersonnelView < EntityView
   based_on :personnel

   heading "Edit Personnel"
   label :fullname,
             :when_blank => '[unknown]',
             :desc => 'Full name'
   text :firstname
   text :surname
   drop_down :security_status,
             :select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top
Secret']
   check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
             :desc => 'agreement signed?'
   drop_down :contract_role,
             :select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
   memo :comments,
             :height => 6
end

Cheers,
Dave

Great! Thanks everyone. All I really wanted was a good starting
place, it seems there's a lot of options out there and I'm pretty
limited on time to get this project done.

This project in particular will be on Windows (sorry), but I'm also a
Linux user and most of the development I do is in the Linux
environment. I'll take alook at all of these and see what best fits
for my app.

Pete.. If you install GTK+ and Ruby on Windows, will be possible run
your application on windows too.

Thanks again!

Cheers,

- --
http://www.goes.eti.br

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On Nov 30, 5:02 am, Sharon Phillips <phillip...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Huw_Collingbourne · 30 November 2007 16:31

pete wrote:

This project in particular will be on Windows

If you are using Visual Studio, you could use our free .NET /Ruby
Connector...

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/SapphireSteel-Downloads

Visual Rails Tools will have to wait until Ruby In Steel 1.2 early in
2008 while fully integrated drag+drop event-driven form design probably
won't be released until IronRuby is close to completion - though we do
have demos of our beta form designer...

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Designer
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IronRuby-Visual-Form-Designer

best wishes
Huw

SapphireSteel Software
http://www.sapphiresteel.com

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Charles_Oliver_Nutte · 30 November 2007 16:48

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

To pete: Lately it seems like lots of folks are settling on JRuby+Swing for cross-platform GUI stuff in Ruby. One binary basically runs anywhere without recompile or modification. That would be my recommendation.

Note: I didn't illustrate one other important point: you don't even need to install JRuby on the host machines. Just ship your app plus JRuby in a single file and it will run wherever Java lives.

- Charlie

Marc_Heiler · 30 November 2007 18:01

"What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?"

I would recommend ruby-gnome/gtk for one sole reason - it has a wiki.
A nice, cute hiki wiki. None ruby-toolkit I am aware of has such a big
wiki.

In fact, I believe, the other ruby-GUI bindings DO NOT EVEN HAVE ANY
WIKI!

You can prove me wrong though, but for now I stand by this bold claim.

(PS: Though, the ruby-gnome wiki is quite good, there are a few missing
parts, especially about gnomecanvas and cairo, or gnome-druid etc...
bindings. But since I also use that, I can do some research and add
lacking docu slowly too. One advantage of a central wiki ... people can
chime in and improve it over time)

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