Is there any way besides Shoes to develop and distribute cross-platform GUI desktop applications written in Ruby?
I come to believe that general bugginess of _why's applications is exceptionally crippling in case of Shoes, and anything more complex than a two-button form is a pain to maintain.
RubyGTK, wxRuby, etc seem to be promising, but they do not solve the issue of distributing an app in a way that doesn't require Ruby pre-installed on users' computers — and libraries like ruby2exe seem to be horribly out-of-date and incomplete.
Generally — what is the current fad?
BTW: if there is a really easy solution to this in Python, I may consider redoing the stuff I'm up to in Python.
I don't think anyone really answered his question.
As for me, I use VB to do Shell() calls to Ocra compiled Ruby scripts.
It works pretty well and allows me to create apps that run in all modern OS.
Linux testing is done by using Wine to run and ensuring that I use a pre .NET version of VB for the .exe compilation.
Distributing Ruby/Python desktop apps