Re: [Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Iain Davis <iedavis1@cougars.ccis.edu> wrote:
>> As far as Tk goes. I am not particularly married to any one windowing
>> toolkit. Would wx, gtk or qt be a better fit, and still be X-platform?
>> I think we should target Windows, Linux and Mac. Tk caught my eye
>> because IDLE is written in it (Tkinter) and makes it a breeze to
>> create other desktop type apps in Python.
>
> I've not had experience with Tk, gtk, or qt. I will say I've used
> wxWidgetsC++ in the past and I was impressed by it. I don't know if
> wxRuby carries with it the same qualities as its C++ counterpart,
> though. But this discussion makes me interested in giving it a spin.
> :)
>
> Iain
>

On that score, I am tending to agree with you. I did a small amount of
research into Ruby GUI frameworks. A 2008 survey found Shoes, wxRuby
and Ruby-GNOME2 to be the favorites. (The latter being preferred in
Japan.) Shoes was the favorite overall. But that was 2008.

They each have their pros and cons wrt to portability and native look
and feel. Of the 3, wxRuby and Shoes look good to me, with wxRuby
being more comprehensive, perhaps.

It occurs to me that the IDE (or editor) should be based on a DSL for
flexibility and extensibility. Shoes 3 recently dropped and I think it
fits the bill. Despite the disappearance of _why_, it seems to be
actively being maintained. I think I'll kick its tires some.

Cheers,
Ed

Ed Howland
http://greenprogrammer.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/ed_howland

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