JRUBY GUI Toolkits

Question

I have been looking for a GUI library for a while now. I had tried Monkeybars and Glimmer, both of which appealed the most to me, but I didn't manage to get them running (Glimmer is very old, won't load the gem properly) and Monkeybars seems quite dead, can't even run the Hello World examples in the video presentations.

So I am wondering if you had any success with any JRuby libs (I am more in favour of Jruby because distribution is easier) What would you recommend?

Answer 1

Well, the beauty of JRuby is that you can use any of the Java libraries available. Here's a recent tutorial on creating a Swing application with JRuby. Monkeybars isn't necessary if you can follow a Java API. If you want some nifty pre-built components check out SwingX.