Can I make a windows application with Ruby?
what famous software made with Ruby (on or off the rails :D)?
everybody seems to be talking about Ruby , and I need a motivation to learn it.
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Can I make a windows application with Ruby?
what famous software made with Ruby (on or off the rails :D)?
everybody seems to be talking about Ruby , and I need a motivation to learn it.
You most certainly can, though it’s uncommon due to Ruby’s affinity to web programming. Ruby is a cross-platform language, so if you write the code, there’s a 99% chance that it will work anywhere you can install the ruby interpreter.
Specific to windows, there’s the Win32 API, which allows you to interface with the windows-specific libraries from creating GUIs to getting data from the clipboard. In addition, Ruby has modules for WxWidgets, Qt, and GTK; so a large number of cross platform GUI-toolkits are available.
As for a state of purpose, the Ruby website has a listing of authorities that use Ruby and what they use it for.
If you’re feeling daring, you can use JRuby and develop in Ruby that runs on the JVM; meaning that your program is able to run anywhere that Java can be installed.