Visual Ruby GUI Builder

Visualruby was designed specifically for rubyists who want to add a GUI to their ruby scripts. It enormously simplifies the process of adding GTK+ windows to your applications. Visualruby is completely integrated with the glade interface designer, so you only need to click on a ruby file to edit its widgets using glade.

You can create a .gemspec file, compile your gem, install your gem, or push, yank or uninstall your gem with just one mouse-click.

This is the main screen of Visualruby. It is also and example of what you can do with visualruby because it was written in Visualruby. To create a graphical program, you simply create a project directory for your files, and write your code:

Then just click the "Run" button:

Obviously, this is a trivial example, but there are about 20 example programs that illustrate many of the things you can do. The best way to learn visualruby, is to follow these example programs. (in ~/visualruby/examples). They are "bite-size" programs that show one idea at a time.

To proceed, follow the install instructions, and run the first examples.

Go to Install Instructions to see instructions to install on your operating system.