On Oct 7, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Jason Matthew wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> I have been using rails for the last 6 months and loving every  
> minute of
> it. I decided it would be smart to dive into learning the in's and  
> out's
> of Ruby. I bought Beginning Ruby, Programming Ruby, and the Ruby
> Cookbook.
>
> I am through chapter  6 of Beginning Ruby and I havent seen any  
> mention
> of GUI.
>
> I primarily work on os x, is RubyCocoa the main way of doing GUI in  
> ruby
> on OS X?
>
> Any tips or advice on where I can read more about GUI with Ruby on  
> OS X
> would be great.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Jason
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
RubyCocoa is one way, and it's the best way to achieve truly native  
GUI with OS X, but it does require some Cocoa understanding, mostly  
the Hillegass book. This is poised to change at the end of this month  
with the new Objective-C 2 and a new XCode as well.
But, you can do GUI stuff with RubyTk, WxRuby or Qt libraries for  
Ruby as well.
It's a little less learning curve than Cocoa, but a whole different  
approach and you can use that stuff for cross-platform work.