QtRuby is a binding of the application framework Qt for

Ruby A ruby is a pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum ( aluminium oxide). Ruby is one of the most popular traditional jewelry gems and is very durable. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called ...

. Korundum is an additional set of bindings for

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which extend QtRuby. QtRuby is

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, as all the underlying technologies are platform agnostic.

QtRuby hello world

require 'Qt4' app = Qt::Application.new(ARGV) hello = Qt::PushButton.new('Hello World!') hello.resize(200, 30) hello.show app.exec The Korundum documentation proposes a more "rubyish" version of this program.

Notable applications that use QtRuby

* Kubeplayer, a video player dedicated to play online videos. * Kaya, a Qt/KDE-based application to play chess, shogi and variants thereof. * Yast 2, penSUSEcontrol center

Status and maintenance

Currently, QtRuby is maintained (if at all) as part of Korundum. A third-party implementation, named "qtbindings" in the

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repository, has been made due to the lack of active development. Stated goals of the project include keeping an up-to-date version of the Qt framework for Ruby, as well as improving compatibility with non-

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systems. As of December 2013, it supports Ruby 2.0 and 1.9, but not 1.8.

References

External links

* {{Ruby programming language KDE Platform Qt (software) Ruby (programming language) Widget toolkits