Can Ruby used to develop Desktop applications?

Answer 1

Yes of course, Bowline was (the last version goes back to 2010) a framework for making cross platform desktop applications in Ruby, HTML and JavaScript.

https://github.com/maccman/bowline

You can even use 'shoes' for developing GUI apps with Ruby.

http://shoesrb.com

Answer 2

Thanks @Dayve

Answer 3

Thanks @Dayve!

Answer 4

Yes, almost every OOP language does! Great question

Answer 5

you can write terminal based apps and scripts very easily using ruby ( example: heroku-cli )

also games using the gosu library.

but, tradional gui apps aren't a viable option to be created using ruby at the moment.

Answer 6

Good question! And how about mobile? Thank you @Dayve for info.

Answer 7

even mobile prog

@iwan sorry to say otherwise but not really