Gambas_Ruby

It’s not easy loving Ruby these days. It’s the rails thing. It hurt Ruby a lot. And it’s also choices of words:

When you name a programming language.. don’t name it ‘it’ or ‘red’ or ‘also’. Searching for ‘Ruby gems’ gives you page after page with sandals with glitter on them.

Searching for ‘ruby’ alone brings up some child molestor or a gender-fluid actor.. or a comedian no-one remembers.
Ruby is a great language that has been mismanaged.

And the gem situation is horrible: Let’s say you want to use a GUI library. With Ruby the Qt is broken; Glitter is nothing but a dead hype; gtk3 can’t be installed with Ruby 3.3.3.

Everybody’s talking about ‘Shoes’ (another dead-brain brand-name)..but Shoes died a long time ago after the author had his real name exposed against his will.

You’re left with Tk or (N)Curses.
(and with Tk, you can’t use drag-and-drop.)

Unless you use ‘Gambas’. Like this:

Build the GUI in Gambas. Build the logic in Ruby. Let them communicate. And now you’re cooking.. at least if you’re me.

You don’t want to use Gambas Basic with the logic.. unless you purposefully trying to hurt yourself. No one should have to use Arrays like that or be exposed to those String-methods.

As William said (in the story with Major Polliter): “She’s backwards all over.”