[xclite]

I know a lot of people in this forum use Ruby for Rails, and all of my challenges have been command line programs.

Does anybody have a favorite GUI toolkit they use for Ruby? Shoes is in a sort of limbo, TK is often described as inadequate, QT exists, and there's always JRuby + Swing. Any preferences or suggestions for a good or useful GUI library?

[Skaggles]

I was just considering this very question. I haven't bothered developing GUI applications with Ruby yet, because if I would go that route, I'd probably use another language better suited for the task. I'm also curious as to any suggestions or thoughts on GUI programming with Ruby.

[Sergio Tapia]

I feel the same way, if I need a client GUI I don't use Ruby. Which is a shame, but it's honestly the most pragmatic solution for me.

I wish I could get paid for Rails sites, but the Bolivian market for it is non existant. For now I toy with it in scripts.

[xclite]

I have a different problem - there's tons of market for Rails in the USA but I don't really enjoy web programming. I think my current route is going to be to use JRuby to import Swing stuff since Swing is mature. It makes deployment easier anyway. It's a shame that Ruby doesn't have a robust, solid toolkit.

[Nakor]

There's IronRuby in which you can use ruby on top of the .NET framework to create WinForm applications

IronRuby Tools

[NotarySojac]

I hear that the Japs LOVE TK. But GUI designing is such a visual thing for me, that I often only use drag/ drop interfaces.

I think to work with TK you need to hand draw your GUI first, and then implement it in code, but my philosophy has always been to just start coding and drag more buttons onto the screen as needed. Then at the end do a rearranging cycle. MS IDEs are best for this strategy atm I think. I'm going to give IronRuby another try. Hopefully it installs this time, last time it gave me issues =(

This post has been edited by NotarySojac: 12 September 2011 - 12:30 PM