Although Ruby is an excellent tool for writing low-level scripts for system administration tasks, it is equally useful for writing end-user applications. And because graphical user interfaces (GUIs) ...

The standard graphical user interface (GUI) for Ruby is Tk. Tk started out as the GUI for the Tcl scripting language developed by John Ousterhout in the mid-eighties, but has since been adopted as a ...

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I spent part of the morning goofing around with Shoes. It's a very simple GUI toolkit from _why, the guy who wrote Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby. Although the docs have the wackiness you would predict ...