What is Ruby's default GUI framework?

Question

If I remember correctly Python ships with Tk as it's standard framework. What's Ruby's default?

Answer 1

The answer previously accepted is now obsolete. Tk no longer comes automatically with Ruby, but must be installed as a gem. There is now no default GUI for Ruby.

Answer 2

There are quiet a few libraries. Most known are: - tk (as mentioned earlier: http://www.rubycentral.com/pickaxe/ext%5Ftk.html) - gtk (http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/) - fxruby (as mentioned earlier: http://www.fxruby.org/) - qt (http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Ruby)

Shoes doesn't deliver a gui library. It is more like a cross-platform framework to build light-weight gui-applications. On linux it uses gtk-libraries.

There's a nice framework for building gui-applications: Rugui (http://rugui.org/). It is a framework for bigger applications and it copies the Ruby On Rails way of working. It supports an MVC design, gui & qt and Rspec & TestUnit. Worth looking at!

Answer 3

Ruby ships with the tk libraries. Also available are fxruby

is quite popular and shoes was gaining some momentum until the authors mysterious disappearence. Of course there are Qt libraries available as well.

Answer 4

Ruby uses Tk as well.