<p>The announcements list is a low-traffic list on which new releases of FXRuby, as well as software based on FXRuby, will be announced. Discussions on various topics however should preferably take place in the users list, to prevent swamping people’s mailboxes. To subscribe, fill out the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-announce"title="Announcements List Subscription Form">web-based subscription form</a>.</p>
<h2>Announcements</h2>
<h2>General Discussion</h2>
<p>The users list is intended for discussion on various FOX and FXRuby topics between developers and/or users of FXRuby and applications based on it. If you have questions, feel free to post your questions here, as many people are only too happy to answer them. To subscribe, fill out the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users"title="General Discussion List Subscription Form">web-based subscription form</a>.</p>
<p>The announcements list is a low-traffic list on which new releases of FXRuby, as well as software based on FXRuby, will be
announced. Discussions on various topics however should preferably take place in the users list, to prevent swamping people’s
mailboxes. To subscribe, fill out the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-announce"title="Announcements List Subscription
Form">web-based subscription form</a>.</p>
<h2>General Discussion</h2>
<p>The users list is intended for discussion on various FOX and FXRuby topics between developers and/or users of FXRuby and
applications based on it. If you have questions, feel free to post your questions here, as many people are only too happy to
answer them. To subscribe, fill out the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users"title="General Discussion List Subscription
<p>The book <cite>FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby</cite> (available from the <ahref="http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fxruby/">Pragmatic Programmers</a> and other booksellers) is the best print source of documentation for FXRuby. It’s also available as a PDF.</p>
<p>Several other books, including <cite>Ruby Developer’s Guide</cite> and <cite>The Ruby Way</cite>, include chapters or sections on GUI development with FXRuby.</p>
<p>The book <cite>FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby</cite> (available from the <ahref="http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fxruby/">Pragmatic
<h1>Online</h1>
Programmers</a> and other booksellers) is the best print source of documentation
<p>The <ahref="http://www.fxruby.org/doc/book.html">FXRuby User’s Guide</a> provides detailed installation instructions as well as a handful of tutorial exercises to get you started with FXRuby development.</p>
for FXRuby. It’s also available as a PDF.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for API reference documentation, all of the classes and methods for FXRuby are documented <ahref="http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Other good sources of documentation include the <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.org/">FOX home page</a> and the <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.net/">FOX Community Wiki</a> site.</p>
<p>Several other books, including <cite>Ruby Developer’s Guide</cite> and <cite>The Ruby Way</cite>, include chapters or sections
on GUI development with FXRuby.</p>
<h1>Online</h1>
<p>The <ahref="http://www.fxruby.org/doc/book.html">FXRuby User’s Guide</a> provides detailed installation instructions as well
as a handful of tutorial exercises to get you started with FXRuby development.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for API reference documentation, all of the classes and methods for FXRuby are documented
<p>Other good sources of documentation include the <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.org/">FOX home page</a> and the <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.net/">FOX Community
<p>The latest version of FXRuby is always available from the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxruby/">RubyForge project page</a>. The
<p>The latest version of FXRuby is always available from the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxruby/">RubyForge project page</a>. The RubyForge releases should always have accompanying release notes describing the changes for that release. A cumulative ChangeLog file is also included in the FXRuby source code distribution. Note that any FXRuby 1.6.x release should be compatible with any FOX 1.6.x release, but won’t be compatible with earlier (or later) versions of FOX.</p>
RubyForge releases should always have accompanying release notes describing the changes for that release. A cumulative ChangeLog
<h1>Source Code</h1>
file is also included in the FXRuby source code distribution. Note that any FXRuby 1.6.x release should be compatible with any
<p>The FXRuby source code is distributed as a gzipped tar archive, and is available for download from the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxruby/">RubyForge project page</a>.</p>
FOX 1.6.x release, but won’t be compatible with earlier (or later) versions of FOX.</p>
<h1>Binaries for Unix/Linux</h1>
<p>Precompiled binaries for FOX, FXScintilla and FXRuby are available for various Unix/Linux platforms, but not in any centralized way.</p>
<p>Both the <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.net/">FOX Community Wiki</a> site and the main <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.org/">FOX web site</a> list a number of independent sources for package downloads for various Linux distributions, but many of these are for older FOX releases. You may have better luck using a RPM search engine like <ahref="http://rpmfind.net/">rpmfind.net</a> to find the most recent packages for your distribution.</p>
<h1>Source Code</h1>
<h1>Binaries for Microsoft Windows</h1>
<p>Windows installers for FXRuby are available for download from the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxruby/">RubyForge project page</a>. The FOX and FXScintilla libraries are built into the Windows installers for FXRuby, and you should not need to download and install those packages separately. These binaries are also compatible with the standard Ruby installer for Windows that are available for download from RubyForge.</p>
<p>Note that the precompiled binaries for Windows are built with OpenGL support, and thus depend on the OpenGL runtime libraries (opengl32.dll and glu32.dll). These libraries were not included with Windows 95 (earlier than OSR2), so if you’re using Ruby and FXRuby on a Windows 95 machine, you may need to download the OpenGL runtime libraries. You must have these libraries installed even if you don’t plan to do anything OpenGL-related with FXRuby.</p>
<p>The FXRuby source code is distributed as a gzipped tar archive, and is available for download from the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxruby/">RubyForge project
page</a>.</p>
<h1>Binaries for Unix/Linux</h1>
<p>Precompiled binaries for FOX, FXScintilla and FXRuby are available for various Unix/Linux platforms, but not in any
centralized way.</p>
<p>Both the <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.net/">FOX Community Wiki</a> site and the main <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.org/">FOX web site</a> list a
number of independent sources for package downloads for various Linux distributions, but many of these are for older FOX
releases. You may have better luck using a RPM search engine like <ahref="http://rpmfind.net/">rpmfind.net</a> to find the most recent
packages for your distribution.</p>
<h1>Binaries for Microsoft Windows</h1>
<p>Windows installers for FXRuby are available for download from the <ahref="http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxruby/">RubyForge project
page</a>. The FOX and FXScintilla libraries are built into the Windows installers for FXRuby,
and you should not need to download and install those packages separately. These binaries are also compatible with the standard
Ruby installer for Windows that are available for download from RubyForge.</p>
<p>Note that the precompiled binaries for Windows are built with OpenGL support, and thus depend on the OpenGL runtime libraries
(opengl32.dll and glu32.dll). These libraries were not included with Windows 95 (earlier than OSR2), so if you’re using Ruby and
FXRuby on a Windows 95 machine, you may need to download the OpenGL runtime libraries. You must have these libraries installed
even if you don’t plan to do anything OpenGL-related with FXRuby.</p>
<p>FXRuby is a library for developing powerful and sophisticated cross-platform graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your Ruby
<p>FXRuby is a library for developing powerful and sophisticated cross-platform graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your Ruby applications. It’s based on the <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.org/"title="FOX Home Page">FOX Toolkit</a>, 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 <ahref="http://www.ruby-lang.org/"title="Ruby Home Page">Ruby</a> 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.</p>
applications. It’s based on the <ahref="http://www.fox-toolkit.org/"title="FOX Home Page">FOX Toolkit</a>, a popular open source
<h1>Projects Using FXRuby</h1>
C++ library developed by Jeroen van der Zijp. What that means for you as an application developer is that you’re able to
<p>Projects using FXRuby include:</p>
write code in the <ahref="http://www.ruby-lang.org/"title="Ruby Home Page">Ruby</a> programming language that you already know and love,
<ul>
while at the same time taking advantage of the performance and functionality of a featureful, highly optimized C++ toolkit.</p>
<li><ahref="http://www.attiksystem.ch/beerp/beerp-the-fxruby-erp/">BeERP</a> is a commercial ERP built entirely with the FXRuby library.</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.discretizer.org/">Discretizer</a> is an interactive mesh creation tool. It can be used to create geometry and meshes for three dimensional flow simulations (CFD).</li>
<li><ahref="http://fox-tool.rubyforge.org/">foxGUIb</a> is an interactive gui builder and codegenerator for FXRuby. This tool makes it easy to quickly build complex and good looking graphical user interfaces for Ruby.</li>
<h1>Projects Using FXRuby</h1>
<li><ahref="http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxri/">FXRI</a> is a FXRuby Interface to RI that supports search-on-typing. FXRI is a small little program that tries to provide the desired information as fast as possible.</li>
<li><ahref="http://fxtwitter.rubyforge.org/">fxtwitter</a> is a simple Twitter client written in Ruby.</li>
<li><ahref="http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl">FreeRIDE</a> is an IDE for the Ruby programming language.</li>
<p>Projects using FXRuby include:</p>
</ul>
<p>If your project uses FXRuby for its user interface, and you’d like to see it listed here, please send me an e-mail with the information.</p>
<ul>
<li><ahref="http://www.insula.cz/dbtalk">DbTalk</a> is an interactive GUI-based tool for database querying, programming, administration, etc. It is developed by Dalibor Sramek.</li>
<li><ahref="http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl">FreeRIDE</a> is an IDE for the Ruby programming language.</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~glast/FRED">FRED</a> is a high energy physics event display built out of Ruby and FOX by Riccardo Giannitrapani and Marco Frailis.</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.mondrian-ide.com/">Mondrian</a> is a cross-platform project-manager and editor for the Ruby language. Written in 100% native Ruby using the FOX GUI toolkit, Mondrian has the familiar look and feel of a modern IDE while remaining dedicated to the uniqueness of the Ruby language and its community.</li>
<li><ahref="http://fox-tool.rubyforge.org/">foxGUIb</a> is an interactive gui builder and codegenerator for FXRuby. This tool makes it easy to quickly build complex and good looking graphical user interfaces for Ruby.
If your project uses FXRuby for its user interface, and you’d like to see it listed here, please send me an e-mail with the information.</li>
