Ruby GUI tools

[Dmitry Svintsov]

Hello,

Could you inform me: Is it possible use GUI Builder for Ruby ? And how if yes.

- Sincerely,
  Dmitry Svintsov

[Martin Krauskopf]

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/

If somebody else knows more it would be nice to update our FAQ[1] ;)

        m.

[1] http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubyFAQ

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[James Britt]

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).

[Logan Barnett]

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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