What's the best/easiest GUI Library for Ruby?

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Chris Pietschmann picture Chris Pietschmann · Nov 4, 2008 · Viewed 130.4k times · Source

Whats the best/easiest GUI library out there for Ruby?

I would prefer a cross-platform GUI library, but currently I'm only concerned about Windows (Win32). I am having difficulting finding any that seem to be easy to use. Are there any?

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Jacob Carpenter picture Jacob Carpenter · Nov 4, 2008

Ruby Shoes (by why) is intended to be a really simple GUI framework. I don't know how fully featured it is, though.

Some good code samples can be found in the tutorials.

Also, I think shoes powers hackety hack, a compelling programming learning environment for youngsters.

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