Shoes is a cross-platform toolkit for writing graphical apps easily and artfully using Ruby. Shoes is designed to be easy and straightforward, while still powerful. It was originally developed by why the lucky stiff, and others are carrying on with it after his disappearance.

Shoes runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (GTK+), using the underlying technologies of Cairo and Pango. It is written mostly in C, and is distributed or compiled as an executable with Ruby 1.9.1 incorporated (so you don't need Ruby). Its base functionality can be expanded by using Ruby gems. Apps can be compiled and distributed as a binary.

Here's an example Shoes app:

Shoes.app :width => 300, :height => 200 do
  button("Click me!") { alert("Good job.") }

Homepage: http://www.shoesrb.com/

Green Shoes is one of the forked projects. It is written in pure Ruby.

Here's an example green Shoes app:

require 'green_shoes'
  button("Click me!"){
    alert("Good job.")

Homepage: http://vgoff.posterous.com/green-shoes

history | show excerpt | excerpt history