Women in Technology

Article:		Ruby the Rival
Subject:		Ruby desktop applications
Date:		2005-11-18 14:05:21
From:		Nicolay77
Could you use Ruby to build a compelling desktop application right now? No. The toolkits don't exist for it. But if the right toolkit were there--it's possible. Well he is plain wrong. There is wxRuby and you can have native looking desktop applications in Windows, Linux, and OSX with it. Here you can check it: http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/

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• Ruby desktop applications
  2005-12-03 12:49:20  AdrienLamothe [View]
  
  
  There was also no mention of Ruby/QT. Ruby/QT is also in the early stages, but will undoubtedly improve.
  
  The compelling thing about Ruby is it appears to have all the language features needed to accommodate sophisticated frameworks. Bruce Tate is probably correct in predicting more Ruby frameworks (that will accomplish the same tasks of todays' enterprise Java frameworks.)
  
  Regardless, competition is good and will keep all parties working hard to please their constituents.
  
  - Adrien Lamothe
  

• Ruby desktop applications
  2005-11-21 13:28:41  homeunix [View]
  
  
  I think Duncan meant something that doesn't suck. Have you tried programming with that stuff? It might look like the half decent crap on linux, but not much better. On Mac it looks like 100% crap, but I am not sure about windows

• Ruby desktop applications
  2005-11-20 19:22:27  James Duncan Davidson | [View]
  
  
  I didn't say that you couldn't build a desktop application. I'm well aware of wxWindows and the like. The word I used was compelling. Of course, that's a matter of opinion...