Shoes is a tiny Ruby GUI toolkit designed for simplicity. It uses Ruby and allows creation of user interfaces using a few basic objects like paragraphs, stacks, flows, buttons, images, edit lines, links, and backgrounds. Shoes supports Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux and uses Cairo and Pango for drawing and text rendering.

1. Shoes
A tiny Ruby GUI toolkit for all of us

2. about me
• Koen Van der Auwera
• Co-founder 10to1 (http://10to1.be)
• Enjoying Java since 2000, Ruby since 2003
• http://atog.be

3. Shoes?
• Designed with simplicity in mind
• Ruby
• You only need to know a few things
• Uses Cairo and Pango for drawing and text.
• Mac OS X, Windows and Linux

4. 10
• para • edit_line
• stacks • link
• flows • background
• button • Shoes.url
• image • clear

5. para
• all things text
• short for “paragraph”

6. stacks and flows
• Columns, grids, just like web pages
• Stacks = vertical
• Flows = horizontal
• Shoes doesn’t believe in a horizontal
scrollbar

7. stacks and flows

8. button
• Yep, a button

9. image
• gif, jpeg or png
• easily swap images by changing the path

10. edit_line
• an input box

11. link
• just like hyperlinks
• web url open in a web browser
• needs be in a text block (para, title, ...)
• link(“Yahoo!”, :click => “http://yahoo.com”)
• image(“me.png”, :click => “http://atog.be”)

12. background
• color, gradient or an image
• fill up an entire box
• rounded corners
• borders too

13. background

14. Shoes.url

15. clear
• clear a box
• hide, show, append, prepend, before, after
• remove

17. demo
• for fun!

18. more?
• http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes
• shoes@code.whytheluckystiff.net
• Nobody knows shoes (http://
www.lulu.com/content/1365064)