Ruby Is Not Just For Rails
While Rails is a great framework, Ruby itself is an even better language and one that is suited for a host of other tasks beside web applications. We’ve been playing around with Ruby/Gnome2 and Glade and after a short learning curve (mainly hunting down which GTK signals are fired and when) we were happily dragging and dropping buttons and wiring the GUI up to a Ruby app. With the release of GtkBuilder in GTK 2.12 libglade is going to be made obsolete although there is no support for GtkBuilder in Ruby/Gnome2 yet.
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