Cross-platform UI with Qt4 and Ruby - Mac/Linux HOWTO
Today I’ve spent the day working on figuring out how to make UIs using Ruby and Qt4. If you haven’t heard of it, Qt4 is an awesome UI framework written in C++. Since C++ is way too much work, some great KDE devs wrote a bindings generator for Qt4 called qt4-qtruby. While this package is fairly “linuxy”, it’s pretty easy to build it on Mac OS X too, making it possible to write GUI programs for OS X without having to delve into RubyCocoa which has too much hackiness (in my opinion), or even worse, Objective C. Furthermore, your code that you write on OS X will look great on Windows and Linux too!
Starting from scratch
First, install Ruby. If you’re using Linux, you’ll probably use the package manager to install Ruby and the Ruby development libraries! (Ubuntu will run sudo apt-get install ruby irb ruby-dev) OS X Tiger ships with Ruby by default, but you’ll want to install an updated version, via the Ruby one-click installer, then disable the old Ruby by using the following command:
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