On Dec 14, 2008, at 10:04 AM, James Britt wrote:
>
>
> Martin Krauskopf wrote:
>>
>> Dmitry Svintsov wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Could you inform me: Is it possible use GUI Builder for Ruby ? And
>>> how
>>> if yes.
>>
>> I've never tried so far, but I think that Monkeybars provides some
>> level
>> of integration which aim is to provide the ability do design UI in
>> the
>> NetBeans GUI builder and write the underneath code in Ruby.
>>
>>
http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org/>>
>>
>
> Monkeybars is able to use pre-compiled UI class files. It doesn't
> matter
> how you create them; NetBeans provides a great tool for this, so it
> figures
> into the demos (and gets heavy use at Happy Camper Studios). But
> there's no
> actual integration between Monkeybars and Netbeans per se, other
> than that
> Netbeans gives you both a solid WYSIWYG tool and a Ruby code editor.
>
> Myself, I use Netbeans to create the UI files then use vi to edit
> the Ruby
> code that uses them. But that's me; the Netbeans Ruby editor is
> quite
> good, so you can do all your Swing design and Ruby coding there.
>
> Note that if you want to use Netbeans with Monkeybars + JRuby you
> need to
> make your project a *Java* project, not a Ruby project. The
> Monkeybars
> screencasts should explain the hows and whys for this (basically,
> Netbeans
> does not offer a proper hybrid JRuby project type).
>
If you take the route of Netbeans + Monkeybars, you won't write a
single line of Java, even though Netbeans generates all UI code as
Java code. If you ever need add components dynamically, you can still
do so with (J)Ruby code.
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