I haven't tried Gtk or wxRuby, but FxRuby (based on FOX GUI) is quite good. I find it to be easier to use than Ruby/Tk - for example, in FxRuby, scrollbars come for free, there's a TreeList that's as easy to use as any other language's tree view, and keyboard shortcuts (in a list box, press 'b' and the selection should jump to the first item beginning with 'b', that kind of thing) and mouse scroll wheels tend to work for free. One issue with Ruby is that there's no full all-singing-all-dancing IDE which will do a lot of the hard work for you. For example, C# guys (including me when I'm not writing installations or programming Ruby) get VS.NET or #Develop, both of which have form designers. Since the form designer works out all the positioning, it makes it easier for the programmer. However, since languages like Ruby don't have a full IDE (yet), you have to do more manually. To alleviate this, languages such as Ruby tend to use GUI libraries that make this as simple as possible. However, this does not result in GUIs that look particularly nice, and . -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.