Does someone create real desktop GUI application with shoes or is it just used for learning purposes? Can shoes be compared with qtruby or gtk for ruby?
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Relatively vague question. I have no experience to judge Shoes toolkit and its support and perspective, only I can add Ruby-GNOME2 (http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/) find very mature. – David Unric Jul 17 '11 at 22:17
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What, for you, would make a "real" application?
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by real applications I mean those which are not created for learning purposes. so, what's your choice of GUI toolkit? – Sergey Jul 17 '11 at 18:12
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I don't have one, I haven't needed to create any cross-platform apps. But I've seen Shoes before and I don't see why it would be any less legitimate than others. – jtbandes Jul 17 '11 at 18:20
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2+1 Sometimes people get confused because of _why's funny tone for development in general, but he's the author of many important and production-ready gems (like `hpricot` for example) – Pablo Fernandez Jul 17 '11 at 23:14
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@feralin Yep, and unfortunately I can't find a cached version anywhere... :( – jtbandes Jul 04 '13 at 19:32
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Yes it is a serious toolkit and it is being developed all the time though slowly. Now you can even use a shoes "clone" as a gem e.g. green shoes
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Shoes rocks... greenShoes is a nice combination of gtk and Shoes. you can definitely make "real desktop applications" with it. there's a bit of a learning curve, as with any toolkit... but what really helps is that there is a strong community with great advice - fool around with it some, and get yourself onto the mailing list with questions/comments/advice/code - http://librelist.com/browser/shoes/ - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/shoes-forum-[ruby-gui]-849302/
here's the manual: shoesrb.com/manual/Hello.html
some great examples: shoes-tutorial-note.heroku.com/
some more examples: github.com/lljk/shoes-stuff
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