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FXruby in all Distros?

Chad Wilson

4/1/2007 12:06:00 AM

Greetings.

Pardon the newbie Ruby question, but is FXRUBY included with all
distro's of Ruby? I have been experimenting with Ruby doing
character-based stuff, but now I want to begin doing some basic
graphical UI.

When I send my next program to a my buddy who uses MacOS X, I want to
know if the program is going to run, or not.

Thank you.

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5 Answers

Lyle Johnson

4/1/2007 12:16:00 AM

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On 3/31/07, Chad Wilson <chadrwilson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Pardon the newbie Ruby question, but is FXRUBY included with all
> distro's of Ruby? I have been experimenting with Ruby doing
> character-based stuff, but now I want to begin doing some basic
> graphical UI.
>
> When I send my next program to a my buddy who uses MacOS X, I want to
> know if the program is going to run, or not.

FXRuby is not part of the standard Ruby library, but I'm not sure if
that's the question that you're asking.

FXRuby is included with the Ruby One-Click installer for Windows,
which includes not only the standard Ruby distribution but also a
number of third-party libraries (such as FXRuby).

FXRuby runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, so yes, your friend would
be able to run programs that you've written -- as long as he installs
FXRuby first. As far as I know, there's no package like the one-click
installer for Mac OS X.

Hope this helps,

Lyle

Chad Wilson

4/1/2007 1:08:00 AM

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> FXRuby runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, so yes, your friend would
> be able to run programs that you've written -- as long as he installs
> FXRuby first. As far as I know, there's no package like the one-click
> installer for Mac OS X.
>
> Hope this helps,

That is EXACTLY the answer I was looking for. Thank you.

-w

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Wim Vander Schelden

4/1/2007 10:31:00 AM

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Who needs one click installers when you have gems? Does gems come
default on OS X? I have gems on it but I can't remember whether I
installed it myself or if it came with the computer.

Wim

Andreas S.

4/1/2007 10:49:00 AM

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Chad Wilson wrote:
> Pardon the newbie Ruby question, but is FXRUBY included with all
> distro's of Ruby?

No. It's not included, and installing it can be quite complicated on
some platforms.

Have you thought about using TK? It should be included in every Ruby
installation, it even works on Mac OS X out of the box.

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Phillip Gawlowski

4/1/2007 2:23:00 PM

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Wim Vander Schelden wrote:
> Who needs one click installers when you have gems?

Ever tried "gem ruby -r -y" on the Windows command line where no Ruby is
installed?
That's why: Not all OSes or Linux distros come with Ruby installed per
default, or don't have a current version in their packet management
repositories. While you can compile Ruby under Linux (doing so is mostly
trivial), Windows users aren't so lucky.

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