Post by Peter Cooper on September 12th, 2007

Anvil: Another Framework for Developing GUI Applications

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Anvil is a new Ruby framework for developing GUI applications by Lance Carlson. It's a framework around Wx::Ruby (WxWidgets is a popular cross-platform widget toolkit) and offers its own DSL to make developing GUI applications easy. The release blog post has more information, including a great example of the code required to make a basic Anvil app. Interestingly it supports an MVC style of development where the view and control elements of your applications can be separated cleanly.

The first Anvil-powered application is a Ruby based editor called Hamr. Lance is so far the main developer of the Anvil project but he's keen to get other people involved.

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    Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #13 Says:
    January 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    [...] Framework) Gets an UpdateA new version of Anvil, a Ruby framework for developing GUI applications, previously covered here on Ruby Inside, has been released. Lance Carlson has done a great job of making developing a basic [...]