HI,
Are there any Visual IDEs available for windows platform ? Please
enlighten me ?
Any help will be highly apprectiated.
-Erland
Hi,
the IDE's I know are:
- FreeRIDE
- RDE
- Eclipse with Ruby Plugin
hope that helps 
Michael
#: Erland changed the world a bit at a time by saying on 9/22/2005 8:16 AM :#
HI,
Are there any Visual IDEs available for windows platform ? Please
enlighten me ?
Any help will be highly apprectiated.
-Erland
ArachnoRuby: excellent one; permanently growing. A new release should come soon! (Lothar hint hint 
- sorry for pushing this, but I am way too eager to see the new one)
./alex
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I'm learning Ruby because of Rails, and I use the Ruby plugin for JEdit
and I really like it. The autoindent feature is great, and is the
ability to invoke the Ruby documentation. It also has autocomplete for
Ruby core library types (Object, String, XML, Hash etc), plus a
structure browser.
JEdit is nice because it has some really plugins that I use (XML,
Diff), so except for Java (for which I use Eclipse), I can use JEdit
for RHTML, Ruby, XML, HTML etc.
The plugin can be downloaded from Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit
Erland wrote:
···
HI,
Are there any Visual IDEs available for windows platform ? Please
enlighten me ?
Any help will be highly apprectiated.
-Erland
Erland wrote:
HI,
Are there any Visual IDEs available for windows platform ? Please
enlighten me ?
Any help will be highly apprectiated.
-Erland
Locana is a GUI interface or GUI toolkit for the Ruby programming language. Locana requires the Ruby programming language <http://www.ruby-lang.org>.
Locana draws widgets such as text boxes, list boxes, edit boxes, buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, and combo boxes using a small set of methods defined in a GUI binding that talks directly to a GUI such as Windows and Tk. It also supports borders, menubars, popup menus, and automatic scrollbars etc.. It currently runs in Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 and on Tk.
Locana comes with a GUI Builder that allows you to create applets interactively.
Locana is freeware, open source, and is released under the same license as Ruby and requires the Ruby programming language.
Screen shots:
* overview of the software
<http://www.sevasoftware.com/locana/screen_shots/overview_rb.html>
* running on MS Windows
<http://www.sevasoftware.com/locana/screen_shots/mswin32_rb.html>
* running on Tk on linux
<http://www.sevasoftware.com/locana/screen_shots/tk_rb.html>
Download <http://www.sevainc.com/locana_download.html>
More detailed information about Locana can be found at http://www.sevasoftware.com/locana\.
Erland wrote:
HI,
Are there any Visual IDEs available for windows platform ? Please
enlighten me ?
Any help will be highly apprectiated.
-Erland
visualWx is one that can be used with lots of languages including Ruby.
It uses the Wxwidgets GUI toolkit. It looks like it will do a lot, but
I haven't found time to really get used to it yet. It doesn't have a
help file or manual that I could find, but there is a forum on Yahoo
groups.
http://visualwx.altervista.org/
Hi,
Many thanks for your message. Which you would you prefer? 
Please do share your thought on this....I have browsed all three and in
my opnion FreeRiDE is good. Anyways i would love to listen from you on
this . Good Day!
-Erland
Michael Ehehalt wrote:
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Hi,
the IDE's I know are:
- FreeRIDE
- RDE
- Eclipse with Ruby Pluginhope that helps
Michael
Hello Michael,
Hi,
the IDE's I know are:
- FreeRIDE
- RDE
- Eclipse with Ruby Plugin
hope that helps
I don't think so, under Visual IDEs i understand the same as RAD
Tools and there simply is no Ruby GUI Builder.
There are some half ready workarounds like Glade and QTDesigner where
you later can attach your code from the outside, but they are are
definitely not IDE's as the 'I' is missing.
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or
http://www.napcs.com/howto/railsonwindows.html
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On 9/23/05, Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com> wrote:
Erland wrote:
>HI,
>Are there any Visual IDEs available for windows platform ? Please
>enlighten me ?
>Any help will be highly apprectiated.
>-Erland
>
>
>
>
http://www.locana.org/Locana is a GUI interface or GUI toolkit for the Ruby programming
language. Locana requires the Ruby programming language
<http://www.ruby-lang.org>.Locana draws widgets such as text boxes, list boxes, edit boxes,
buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, and combo boxes using a small set
of methods defined in a GUI binding that talks directly to a GUI such as
Windows and Tk. It also supports borders, menubars, popup menus, and
automatic scrollbars etc.. It currently runs in Windows
XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 and on Tk.Locana comes with a GUI Builder that allows you to create applets
interactively.Locana is freeware, open source, and is released under the same license
as Ruby and requires the Ruby programming language.Screen shots:
* overview of the software
<http://www.sevasoftware.com/locana/screen_shots/overview_rb.html>
* running on MS Windows
<http://www.sevasoftware.com/locana/screen_shots/mswin32_rb.html>
* running on Tk on linux
<http://www.sevasoftware.com/locana/screen_shots/tk_rb.html>Download <http://www.sevainc.com/locana_download.html>
More detailed information about Locana can be found at
http://www.sevasoftware.com/locana\.
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Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com> writes:
Locana comes with a GUI Builder that allows you to create applets
interactively.
Strange I downlaoded it installed it and started the gui_builder, it
reacts strange to mouse input it seems it does not matter where the
mous is places is just cycles around arbitrary, on the left hand are
buttons and nothing happens while I click on it. If I click around a
bit I got an error message box telling me that something is not there,
then while running the test and just clicking around the application
crashes. If I run on any of the buttons at the top of the tst_locana
nothing happens.
Here are just a few hints from the stack
Locana error during trigger(:on_mouse_move, ...)
Occurred during :on_mouse_move event:
Object: Lradiobox:r_radio2[0, 17, 62, 17]{:text=>"radio 2", :below=>:prev, :help=>"The tab_order is specified here to alter the normal tab order", :tab_order=>-1, :sticky=>:nw}
method `on_mouse_out' called on terminated object (0x2aaaabf512b0)
Call Stack:
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/l_menu.rb:182:in `on_mouse_out'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/l_event.rb:922:in `trigger'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/l_event.rb:895:in `trigger_on_mouse_move'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/l_event.rb:262:in `trigger_gui_event'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/locana_gui_tk.rb:255:in `lg_tk_event'
(eval):929:in `mainloop'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/locana_gui_tk.rb:1317:in `event_loop'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana.rb:610:in `event_loop'
tst/tst_locana.rb:866
deactivating TestWindow
activating TestWindow
deactivating TestWindow
If I just move my mouse over the text windows I got
the same erro message
method `on_mouse_out' called on terminated object (0x2aaaabf512b0)
If the curser gets's near the menu the stuff crashes also.
maybe it's my system but I doubt that I messed it up that massivly.
Regards
Friedrich
this came close to running on my system. locana_builder.rb ran but
came up with a 'cannot convert nil into integer' error. clicked on
ignore, but trying anything else with the interface did the same thing.
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Reid Thompson wrote on 9/24/2005 12:24 AM: > http://www.locana.org/
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Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com> writes:
Locana comes with a GUI Builder that allows you to create applets
interactively.
Strange I downlaoded it installed it and started the gui_builder, it
reacts strange to mouse input it seems it does not matter where the
mous is places is just cycles around arbitrary, on the left hand are
buttons and nothing happens while I click on it. If I click around a
bit I got an error message box telling me that something is not there,
then while running the test and just clicking around the application
crashes. If I run on any of the buttons at the top of the tst_locana
nothing happens.
Here are just a few hints from the stack
Locana error during trigger(:on_mouse_move, ...)
Occurred during :on_mouse_move event:
Object: Lradiobox:r_radio2[0, 17, 62, 17]{:text=>"radio 2", :below=>:prev, :help=>"The tab_order is specified here to alter the normal tab order", :tab_order=>-1, :sticky=>:nw}
method `on_mouse_out' called on terminated object (0x2aaaabf512b0)
Call Stack:
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/l_menu.rb:182:in `on_mouse_out'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/l_event.rb:922:in `trigger'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/l_event.rb:895:in `trigger_on_mouse_move'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/l_event.rb:262:in `trigger_gui_event'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/locana_gui_tk.rb:255:in `lg_tk_event'
(eval):929:in `mainloop'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana/locana_gui_tk.rb:1317:in `event_loop'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/locana.rb:610:in `event_loop'
tst/tst_locana.rb:866
deactivating TestWindow
activating TestWindow
deactivating TestWindow
If I just move my mouse over the text windows I got
the same erro message
method `on_mouse_out' called on terminated object (0x2aaaabf512b0)
If the curser gets's near the menu the stuff crashes also.
maybe it's my system but I doubt that I messed it up that massivly.
Regards
Friedrich
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Hi Erland,
I'm a newbie and checked the IDE's only for a few days. My prefer at this
time is RDE, because it has the autocomplete functionality, what's very fine
for newbie's 
But I will check ArachnoRuby (thanx to Alex). It looks very nice too.
Michael
Hi Lothar,
if the "Visual" in the subject correspondend to GUI, then you are rigth and
I should start my brain before I answer ... 
Your signature includes the link to the Arachno Ruby site. So I combine you
are familar to this IDE. Has this IDE the possibility to build GUI's for:
- Ruby TK
- FxRuby
- QTRuby
- WxRuby
The website from Arachno Ruby don't answer me these questions (or I have
oversight this).
Michael
Lothar Scholz wrote:
Hello Michael,
> Hi,
> the IDE's I know are:
> - FreeRIDE
> - RDE
> - Eclipse with Ruby Plugin> hope that helps
I don't think so, under Visual IDEs i understand the same as RAD
Tools and there simply is no Ruby GUI Builder.There are some half ready workarounds like Glade and QTDesigner where
you later can attach your code from the outside, but they are are
definitely not IDE's as the 'I' is missing.
I wouldn't call Qt Designer a 'half ready workaround'. I certainly prefer
the UI of the Qt4 version to the Qt3 one, but it is a perfectly useful
tool.
KDevelop 3.2.x and the forthcoming Eric3 3.8 have support for using Qt
Designer with QtRuby/Korundum. You can either compile the .ui file to ruby
code with the rbuic tool, or read the .ui file in at runtime using the
'qui' extension with Qt::WidgetFactory. KDevelop has complete integration,
with Qt Designer as a KPart component, while Eric3 starts the Qt Designer
app when you click on a .ui file in the project.
-- Richard
I used to think there wasn't a Ruby GUI Builder but there is one:
visualWX. Check it out here: http://visualwx.altervista.org/
AEM
Another one to try out is the Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit (free under the
GPL):
Rob
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On 9/22/05, Michael Ehehalt <michael.ehehalt@no-spam.fecher.de> wrote:
Hi Erland,
I'm a newbie and checked the IDE's only for a few days. My prefer at this
time is RDE, because it has the autocomplete functionality, what's very
fine
for newbie'sBut I will check ArachnoRuby (thanx to Alex). It looks very nice too.
Michael
Lothar is the author of the Arachno Ruby IDE.
Curt
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On 9/23/05, Michael Ehehalt <michael.ehehalt@no-spam.fecher.de> wrote:
Hi Lothar,
if the "Visual" in the subject correspondend to GUI, then you are rigth and
I should start my brain before I answer ...Your signature includes the link to the Arachno Ruby site. So I combine you
are familar to this IDE.
Hello Richard,
I wouldn't call Qt Designer a 'half ready workaround'. I certainly prefer
the UI of the Qt4 version to the Qt3 one, but it is a perfectly useful
tool.
KDevelop 3.2.x and the forthcoming Eric3 3.8 have support for using Qt
Designer with QtRuby/Korundum. You can either compile the .ui file to ruby
code with the rbuic tool, or read the .ui file in at runtime using the
'qui' extension with Qt::WidgetFactory. KDevelop has complete integration,
with Qt Designer as a KPart component, while Eric3 starts the Qt Designer
app when you click on a .ui file in the project.
It is still far from what people expect. There is IMHO no direct GUI <->
Code interaction as for example Delphi or other tools offer (if i'm
wrong here please correct me). Having QtDesigner embedded in the
IDE window is not something that i would call "integrated". This word
should describe the workflow and there you can find the problem.
But i have a very special opinion here, for me even Apples IB is not
integrated into XCode - in contrast to RealBasic.
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Hello Michael,
- Ruby TK
- FxRuby
- QTRuby
- WxRuby
The website from Arachno Ruby don't answer me these questions (or I have
oversight this).
No as i said there is no GUI Builder for ruby out there, even Arachno
Ruby does not do this. It is only possible to debug/write such
application with my IDE.
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