why fx?

so maybe this is answered in the book but why fox instead of one of the other gui apis? Is it because you feal fox is the clear leader in ruby gui’s or what exactly drove it to this point of publishing fox ruby over the other gui’s?

I’m not sure who you’re posing your question to. Are you asking why I (the author) wrote this book, or why the publishers decided to publish it?

I got involved with FOX’s development pretty early on, because Jeroen van der Zijp (FOX’s creator) and I were co-workers. Once I discovered the Ruby programming language (in 2000), I started working on FXRuby and the rest is history.

I don’t presume to speak for the publishers, but I think they would say that they decided to publish the book because I submitted a proposal and they decided it was a good business idea for them to pursue. They have previously published a book on QtRuby, by the way. I believe that if you or some other author were interested in writing about one of the other GUI toolkits for Ruby, they’d be interested in hearing from you.

Thanks for answering my post. I didn’t realize they had published qtRuby as well and it was more of question whether the publisher had decided that fxruby was the defacto gui for ruby. It appears they have not and that they are simply publishing any good reference material. I look forward to learning and reading the book.