[{"user_id": 18775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300332721.6396289, "message": "Hi, i'm kind of new to Ruby, and need to do a multiplatform GUI application with drawing functionality (something like cairo)... I need the application to work on Windows and OSX. Anyone has a suggestion?", "group_id": 109, "id": 371282}, {"user_id": 4865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300333162.0754831, "message": "On Mac OS X you can use MacRuby.", "group_id": 109, "id": 371344}, {"user_id": 4149, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300333259.692384, "message": "anyone know a good plugin for eclipse for ruby?", "group_id": 109, "id": 371351}, {"user_id": 4865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300333204.6119161, "message": "Titanium (http://www.appcelerator.com/) also support Ruby.", "group_id": 109, "id": 371347}, {"user_id": 8192, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300338502.967026, "message": "You could use qtruby-qt4 or the ruby wxwidgets binding. I would recommend qt, because is feels more native on each supported platform(which are quite a lot)", "group_id": 109, "id": 371701}, {"user_id": 12881, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300344960.350481, "message": "ruby-gnome is also nice.", "group_id": 109, "id": 372009}, {"user_id": 18775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300347650.8801789, "message": "Thanx. I think i'll try wxWidgets, because i'm not doing an open source project, and need OSX/Windows support.", "group_id": 109, "id": 372133}, {"user_id": 19808, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300352522.5639689, "message": "Shoes! http://shoesrb.com/downloads and http://blog.shoesrb.com/ (But I'm biased). Also check out the work being done on Green Shoes (http://green.shoesrb.com)", "group_id": 109, "id": 372493}, {"user_id": 20279, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300359609.5545051, "message": "shoes has the better dsl but it's poor and too simple (listviews, where are you?). macruby is great buy you need to understand the whole cocoa framework and at the end of the day you will find ruby is not helping too much. hotcocoa has great dsl but it's hard to debug and not so easy to exend. qt and gtk have too many dependencies. both have great API's but they don't fit into ruby-world.", "group_id": 109, "id": 372904}, {"user_id": 19808, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300360326.199085, "message": "@knoopx Yeah, Shoes is probably best for little apps and games although is also great for prototyping stuff in, but you'd never used it to build a big piece of software you wanted to sell (for example).", "group_id": 109, "id": 372938}, {"user_id": 19808, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300361179.1452789, "message": "There's also Limelight (http://limelight.8thlight.com/), along the same vein as Shoes, Bowline, etc.", "group_id": 109, "id": 372967}, {"user_id": 20279, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300361031.987638, "message": "http://bowlineapp.com/ looks great, its for webkit-apps. similar to titanium.", "group_id": 109, "id": 372961}, {"user_id": 13404, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300369500.8976309, "message": "You could use Swing together with JRuby. Also see https://github.com/monkeybars/monkeybars-core", "group_id": 109, "id": 373891}, {"user_id": 22458, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300379190.3152599, "message": "Ubuntu 10.10 (http://www.ubuntu.com/) with Rubymine (http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/) is powerful platform. I feel it is important to develop in a similar environment to production.", "group_id": 109, "id": 375227}, {"user_id": 8192, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300383934.3332679, "user_id": 13919}], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300382880.715178, "message": "As alternative to the commercial rubymine I can recommend the free multiplatform editor redcar, which is even written in ruby(jruby with SWT) - http://redcareditor.com", "group_id": 109, "id": 375664}, {"user_id": 18775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13491, "date_created": 1300386325.4189439, "message": "Thanx all for your answers.", "group_id": 109, "id": 376351}]