On Wednesday 30 November 2005 07:49 am, snacktime wrote:
> On 11/28/05, tony <L / l.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > is there a GUI IDE for Ruby? I have to decide on Ruby orJava to start
> > developing crossplatform gui applications (developed on Linux) and this
> > info is crucial to me.
> >
> > Thank you for your answers.
>
> I've been looking at my options in this area also.  So far wxruby and
> visualwx are at the top of my list.  wxruby seems pretty stable even
> though it's considered beta.  visualwx is alpha quality but seems to
> work ok.  The two combined are much simpler to configure and use then
> anything else I have found.  Actually I haven't found any other visual
> IDE that runs on windows and uses a library that has native widgets.
> If it exists I'd love to find it.  fxruby looks like a close second
> but frankly it's widgets are ugly on windows.
>
> Chris

wxruby2 is very incomplete, wxruby doesn't work too well... sorry to burst the 
enjoyment bubble.

You'll find these toolkits to work the best, and are most complete..

qtruby3 (no windows though) qtruby4 will but dont count on it soon.
ruby-gnome2(also ruby-gtk2) are the most complete.

qtruby has kdevelop possibilities
ruby-gtk2 has glade. might not be as powerful as designer for Qt, but the 
application is decent to work with.

fxruby is just okay, no designer, plus it is unstable if you pass variables to 
it which you aren't supposed to, leading in segfaults of ruby.

Tsume