Summary
We've devoted two days to learning about two of the more popular GUI toolkits that can be used with Ruby. There are others that you may like as well or better, such as FXRuby, based on the cross-platform FOX toolkit family, and Ruby/Qt, based on the windowing system that underlines the popular KDE desktop environment for Unix. Both of these also have Windows versions, and Fox in particular seems to be gaining popularity quickly within the Ruby community.
Currently, no complete English language translation of the Ruby/Gtk documentation exists, but work on it is progressing, and information on Gtk itself is plentiful on the Web. Look at http://www.gtk.org for C-based documentation, or search the Web or Usenet for some of the many Perl/Gtk ...
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