Here is a ten-minute flash movie made by Mutoh-san to demonstrate implementation of Web browser using Ruby-GNOME2 and Glade2. Glade is a user interface builder for GTK+ and GNOME and generates an XML configuration file which can be converted to Ruby script by libglade.

What is your favorite GUI tool kit for Ruby on Linux (I am investigating)?

The new Rails release (0.14) includes a very loose support for plugins, right? You drop plugins in vender/plugins and done. At David’s request, folks have been dropping their plugins on the wiki and now you can get a script which scans the wiki page for URIs and presents you with a list of plugins you can install.

 $ cd my-rails-app
 $ curl http://lesscode.org/svn/rtomayko/rails/scripts/plugin > script/plugin
 $ chmod +x script/plugin

This reminds me of the old RAA-Install that got born after RubyConf 2002. I love this kind of hack’ry. Using the simplest of protocols and conventions to get bootstrapped.