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Can Ruby used to develop Desktop applications?

8th Aug 2017, 4:33 AM
∂єvєlσρєr
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Yes of course, Bowline was (the last version goes back to 2010) a framework for making cross platform desktop applications in Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. https://github.com/maccman/bowline You can even use 'shoes' for developing GUI apps with Ruby. http://shoesrb.com
8th Aug 2017, 4:53 AM
Dev
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Thanks @Dayve
8th Aug 2017, 3:02 PM
Jully Fredy
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Thanks @Dayve!
8th Aug 2017, 6:14 AM
Manual
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Yes, almost every OOP language does! Great question
8th Aug 2017, 3:14 PM
Iwan
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you can write terminal based apps and scripts very easily using ruby ( example: heroku-cli ) also games using the gosu library. but, tradional gui apps aren't a viable option to be created using ruby at the moment.
8th Aug 2017, 6:56 AM
Salekin
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Good question! And how about mobile? Thank you @Dayve for info.
8th Aug 2017, 2:18 PM
Jakub Miziński
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even mobile prog @iwan sorry to say otherwise but not really
8th Aug 2017, 7:00 PM
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
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