However before you can begin writing gui programs you first have to install the tk library and the ruby bindings.
Ruby tcl tk.
It provides all the essentials about core tk concepts the various widgets layout events and more that you need for your application.
This tutorial will quickly get you up and running with the latest tk from tcl ruby perl or python on mac windows or linux.
Tk has been ported to run on most flavors of linux mac os unix.
Okay you might get lucky and find that there is a package for your linux distribution that lets you use a relatively recent ruby with a relatively recent tk.
This tutorial will quickly get you up and running with the latest tk from tcl ruby perl or python on mac windows or linux.
Ruby tk tk rb など を使いたい場合には tcltklib so が正しく動いていな ければなりません コンパイル時に何か問題が生じた場合は readme tcltklib や readme activetcl を見てください たとえ ruby のライブラリディレクトリに tcltklib so が存在していたとして も 実行環境に tcl tk ライブラリ libtcl8 4 so.
The ruby tk bindings are distributed with ruby but tk is a separate installation.
Windows users can download a single click tk installation from activestate s activetcl.
Tk is a free and open source cross platform widget toolkit that provides a library of basic elements of gui widgets for building a graphical user interface gui in many programming languages.
The tk gui toolkit was originally written for the tcl scripting language but has since been adopted by many other languages including ruby though it s not the most modern of toolkits it is free and cross platform and is a good choice for simpler gui applications.
Mac and linux users may not need to install it because there is a great chance that its already installed along with os but if not you can download prebuilt packages or get.
So to get the latest version of tk for ruby we re going to have to do two things first download the latest 8 5 x tcl tk version from activestate and then compile ruby to use it.
This tutorial will quickly get you up and running with the latest tk from tcl ruby perl or python on mac windows or linux.
The tk extension works on windows mac os x and unix systems.
It provides all the essentials about core tk concepts the various widgets layout events and more that you need for your application.
Now this ruby installer only contains the ruby bindings to whatever version of tcl tk you wish to install.
Previous versions of the ruby one click installer contained an old version of tcl tk.