“Shoes is a cross-platform toolkit for writing graphical apps easily and artfully using Ruby.”

Shoes is a friggin sweet framework for making GUI applications in Ruby. There are lots of GUI toolkits out there but none of them are as easy to get up and running with & distribute as Shoes (IMHO).

In this screencast, we …

• look at some of the resources available for learning Shoes
• download it and start coding an application
• add some form elements (like text boxes) to our app
• do stuff with buttons
• play around with the layout of our application using Stacks and Flows
• briefly look at styles like text/background colors
• walk thru the code of a Database GUI that I recently made using Shoes

Hello World

1 Shoes.app do
2   button 'Click Me' do
3     alert 'Hello from Shoes!'
4   end
5 end