Is shoes is a serious GUI toolkit for ruby? [closed]

Question

Does someone create real desktop GUI application with shoes or is it just used for learning purposes? Can shoes be compared with qtruby or gtk for ruby?

Heighten

Relatively vague question. I have no experience to judge Shoes toolkit and its support and perspective, only I can add Ruby-GNOME2 (ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp) find very mature. – Feverwort

Answer 1

What, for you, would make a "real" application?

Here's a comparison between Shoes and qtruby.

Toothy

by real applications I mean those which are not created for learning purposes. so, what's your choice of GUI toolkit? – Heighten

I don't have one, I haven't needed to create any cross-platform apps. But I've seen Shoes before and I don't see why it would be any less legitimate than others. – Toothy

OK, thanks for your opinion, waiting for others – Heighten

+1 Sometimes people get confused because of _why's funny tone for development in general, but he's the author of many important and production-ready gems (like hpricot for example) – Underlay

the link rotted, unfortunately – Ascender

@feralin Yep, and unfortunately I can't find a cached version anywhere... :( – Toothy

Answer 2

Yes it is a serious toolkit and it is being developed all the time though slowly. Now you can even use a shoes "clone" as a gem e.g. green shoes

Acker

Answer 3

Shoes rocks... greenShoes is a nice combination of gtk and Shoes. you can definitely make "real desktop applications" with it. there's a bit of a learning curve, as with any toolkit... but what really helps is that there is a strong community with great advice - fool around with it some, and get yourself onto the mailing list with questions/comments/advice/code - http://librelist.com/browser/shoes/ - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/shoes-forum-[ruby-gui]-849302/

here's the manual: shoesrb.com/manual/Hello.html

some great examples: shoes-tutorial-note.heroku.com/

some more examples: github.com/lljk/shoes-stuff

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