Distributing Ruby/Python desktop apps

Question

Is there any way besides Shoes to develop and distribute cross-platform GUI desktop applications written in Ruby?

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Answer 1

I don't think anyone really answered his question.

As for me, I use VB to do Shell() calls to Ocra compiled Ruby scripts. It works pretty well and allows me to create apps that run in all modern OS.

Linux testing is done by using Wine to run and ensuring that I use a pre .NET version of VB for the .exe compilation.