James Wilding's Weblog

Bowline is a Ruby GUI framework that allows you to build desktop applications using Ruby, HTML, CSS, and JQuery. Sounds interesting? I thought so too!

Bowline works in combination with Titanium, which lets you:

Use Web technologies to create rich applications for Windows, Mac and Linux from a single code base.

I think Bowline looks awesome. Desktop apps using Ruby, WebKit, HTML 5 — all the best stuff if you’re a web development geek like me.

It’s difficult to summarise how Bowline works (although it’s a little like Rails), so I recommend that you read the author’s blog post introducing the framework. Let’s hope Bowline grows into a stable, mature framework that does for desktop apps what Rails has done for the web.