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Toolkits, libraries and more.

See also Ruby mentoring tools

Any old text editor will work for Ruby programming.

• RubyGems is the primary tool for libraries.
• rvm - Ruby Version Manager. Lets you have multiple installations of different versions of Ruby.
• Shoes - A GUI library.
• YAML - A data format. Good for converting Ruby objects into text that you can save to, and later retrieve from, text files.

• Ruby testing

GUI Toolkits/Libraries ∞

In Testing:

• Shoes

  • Seems nice and simple

Contenders:

- The built in Tk crap? Does it still look fugly on Windows?

• Ruby/FLTK (the Fast, Light, GUI ToolKit).

  • Can do 3d via OpenGL.
  • beginner tutorial

• Locana

  • Windows, and Tk.

• gtk-server

  • Cross-platform, but only works on Windows by using MinGW.

• [?] Ruby/Tk

  • Included within Ruby. I'm not sure if there's a home page.
  • See also SpecTcl and GUI Builder
    -- A GUI builder for Tcl/Tk. It features drag & drop widget creation and configuration of widgets through a GUI.

• FXRuby

  • Uses the Fox toolkit

• wxRuby

  • Uses the wxWidgets toolkit.

Out of the running:

I have a lot of notes on projects that appeared to be dead when I last looked at them. These projects seem to be alive, but they're not what we're looking for.

• VisualuRuby

  • Windows-only.

• RubyCocoa

  • Mac-only.

• Ruby-GNOME2

  • Linux-only.

• borges

  • Web toolkit.

• merb

  • Web toolkit.
• Korundum and QtRuby

• KDE > https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Ruby

  • Linux-only?

• STFL (Structured Terminal Forms Language/Library)

  • For building console apps.

Multimedia development frameworks ∞

Related:

• https://web.archive.org/*/oreilly.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/04/creating-games-in-ruby.html

  • https://web.archive.org/*/www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html
  • (note that these are from Dec 2007)

• OpenGL tutorials.

In testing:

• Gosu - A 2D game development library.

  • Not bad. Had issues with having too many objects at once slowing things down. It wasn't examined very closely.

Candidates:

• Ogre.rb

  • Wraps the the Ogre Rendering Engine.
  • Direct3D and OpenGL.
  • Was impossible to get going.

• Rubygame (see Ogre.rb)

  • SDL
  • Was impossible to get going.

• RUDL (Rubified or Rubyesque Directmedia Layer)

  • SDL
  • Horrid website.

• Ruby/SDL (ruby-sdl)

  • Known to be slow for 3D. Fast for 2D though.
  • SDL
  • Too intimidated by the other SDL-dependent libraries to try.

GUI Prototyping ∞

• (nothing researched/found)

Packaging a script ∞

This is the preparation of whatever it takes to give to a non-technical non-Ruby person so they can use something you programmed. It includes, downloads or installs anything it needs.. be it a special environment, dependencies, Ruby, RubyGems, gem dependencies, any libraries, etc etc.

• Shoes has shoes -p which lets one package a Ruby/Shoes script for any of Windows/OSX/Linux.

TODO: A linux solution? Right now I'd boot into Windows and use OCRA.

• OCRA (OneClick Ruby Application Builder)

  • Builds one-click Windows executables from Ruby source code.
  • Forum

• Exerb

  • Not examined.

Dead ∞

• Crate

  • Packaging ruby applications, not examined.
  • Not updated since 2008. Seems to be dead.

• RubyScript2Exe

  • RubyScript2Exe transforms your Ruby application into a standalone, compressed Windows, Linux or Mac OS X (Darwin) executable.
  • rubyscript2exe has problems with ruby-1.8.6 and later. It appears that for one reason or another it is no longer supported.

• New RubyScript2Exe maintainer.

  • Not tested.
  • Requires Tar2RubyScript

Notes / Related ∞

• Resource Hacker

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