Ruby Desktop Applications

Question

Is it possible to create an entire application in ruby and run as an exe file in windows, or as an application on any OS?

Answer 1

In a try to give some update to this thread:

Certainly, there are ways to do desktop apps using ruby, but all of them seems a little outdated. NodeJs based projects are gaining a lot of buzz and contribution this days. Projects like Brackets-Shell and Node-webkit are the most prominent in the field. The approach is not so difficult to get, yo can use the ExpressJS framework (similar to Sinatra but in Javascript) and get similar results.

Definitely you should try both of them, or at least read the README on the github pages, there are a ton of projects that fits perfectly in this approach. Personally i have tried Node-Webkit, and the result is amazing, very fast and you can reuse all your web skills.