Advice on writing a WebKit based Windows app

[Andrew Havens]

I recently wrote a desktop "wrapper" application for Mac using MacRuby. It was great because I got to use Ruby syntax and it was easy to install and deploy. The point of the application is simply to make it so I can have my Mad Chatter web application running as a separate app and add hooks for javascript to trigger Growl notifications. Now I want to write the same thing for Windows. I don't have any experience writing Windows applications, nor do I really want to spend the time learning to write apps for a dying OS ;)

Do you have any experience working with, or know of any good libraries/frameworks for writing an app like this for Windows? It would be great if I could use Ruby syntax for this. Is that was IronRuby is for?

I recently came across a framework called Qt, which has the ability to embed a WebKit WebView, so that looks promising, but I don't know how it compares to other options available.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

--Andrew

[Jesse Cooke]

From what I've heard, JRuby has the best GUI support on Windows.

Check out Limelight* it's pretty slick, and Micah presented on it at RubyConf last year **

I just watched that presentation the other day. Neat stuff!

Not sure if you can embed a WebView though. Qt is probably better suited for that.

* http://limelight.8thlight.com/download

** http://confreaks.com/videos/672-rubyconf2011-pure-ruby-gui

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Jesse Cooke :: N-tier Engineer
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--Andrew

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