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FXRuby Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby

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FXRuby is a library for developing powerful and sophisticated cross- platform graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your Ruby applications. It’s based on the FOX Toolkit, a popular open source C++ library devel- oped by Jeroen van der Zijp. What that means for you as an application developer is that you’re able to write code in the Ruby programming language that you already know and love, while at the same time tak- ing advantage of the performance and functionality of a fully featured, highly optimized C++ toolkit.
Although FOX doesn’t have the same level of name recognition as some other GUI toolkits, it has been available since 1997 and is still under continuous development. FXRuby has been under development since late 2000, and the first public release was in January 2001. I’ve been the lead developer during that entire time, with a number of community volunteers contributing patches along the way. It’s a tricky proposition to guess the size of the user community for an open source project, but according to the RubyForge statistics there have been close to 45,000 downloads of FXRuby since the project was moved there (and almost 18,000 before that, when it was hosted at SourceForge). Questions posted to the FXRuby users mailing list are often answered by myself, Jeroen van der Zijp (the developer of FOX), or one of the other longtime members of the FXRuby community.

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: ., 2008

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1-217

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English

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978-1-934356-07-4

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FXRuby Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby

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