Welcome to FXRuby

FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI library. It is Copyright 2001-2004 by Lyle Johnson and released under the GNU Lesser General Public License

Versions

As of the FOX 1.0 release, any FXRuby version 1.0.x release should be compatible with any FOX 1.0.x release.

The current FXRuby 1.0.x releases are not compatible with FOX 1.1 or FOX 1.2! A version of FXRuby that is compatible with FOX 1.2 should be ready sometime in June. Stay tuned!

Mailing Lists

Announcements
The announcements list is a low-traffic list on which new releases of FXRuby, as well as software based on FXRuby, will be announced. Discussions on various topics however should preferably take place in the users list, to prevent swamping people's mailboxes. To subscribe, send a mail to fxruby-announce-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word subscribe in the message body, or fill out the web-based subscription form.

General Discussion

The users list is intended for discussion on various FOX and FXRuby topics between developers and/or users of FXRuby and applications based on it. If you have questions, feel free to post your questions here, as many people are only too happy to answer them. To subscribe, send a mail to fxruby-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word subscribe in the message body, or fill out the web-based subscription form.

Screenshots

If you need to whet your appetite with a few screenshots before committing to an actual download, I understand completely. This page from the FXRuby User's Guide displays screenshots from some representative FOX and FXRuby programs. The FOX home page also devotes a section to FOX-based Projects and Screen Shots, which you may also want to check out.

Projects Using FXRuby

Projects using FXRuby include:

• DbTalk is an interactive GUI-based tool for database querying, programming, administration, etc. It is developed by Dalibor Sramek.
• FreeRIDE is an IDE for the Ruby programming language.
• FRED is a high energy physics event display built out of Ruby and FOX by Riccardo Giannitrapani and Marco Frailis.

If your project uses FXRuby for its user interface, and you'd like to see it listed here, please send me an e-mail with the information.

Copyright © 2001-2004 Lyle Johnson