FXRuby Develop powerful and sophisticated cross-platform graphical user interfaces for your Ruby applications
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Develop powerful and sophisticated cross-platform graphical user interfaces for your Ruby applications FXRuby is an extension module for Ruby that provides an interface to the FOX GUI toolkit.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 developed 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 taking advantage of the performance and functionality of a featureful, highly optimized C++ toolkit.NOTE: FXRuby is licensed and distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. What's New in This Release: · This release is primarily a transitional one, intended to prove out the significant changes to the development environment. Earlier this year, the FXRuby source code repository was moved from Subversion (hosted at RubyForge) to Git (hosted at GitHub). More recently, I've revamped the build system, replacing some custom scripts with a more standardized process based on the Hoe and rake-compiler extensions to Rake. The intent of these changes is to make it easier for interested parties to participate in FXRuby's development. As a result, despite a good bit of code churn, there are (by design) no significant functional differences between this release and version 1.6.19. · The installation procedure for FXRuby now depends entirely on RubyGems. One consequence of this is that several of the previous distribution mechanisms (such as the source tarball, and the Windows installer .exe package) are no longer supported. On the other hand, we are making the effort to provide precompiled binaries on a larger number of platforms than before (e.g. Linux and OS X). · The previous release of FXRuby couldn't be built from source against Ruby 1.9.1 final due to a change in some of the file-related utility libraries (see RubyForge Bug #23786). This problem has been corrected.

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