Video for RubyConf 2024 Workshop "How To Build Basic Desktop Applications in Ruby"

The video for my RubyConf 2024 Workshop "How To Build Basic Desktop Applications in Ruby" has been released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSqRdTVtDY

This video is not only useful to Ruby Developers who want to learn how to build basic desktop applications in Ruby with the Fukuoka Ruby 2022 Award Winning Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Library), but also to Rails Developers who want to build Rails productivity tools as Ruby gems (e.g. the rails-gui gem offers a user-friendly fast GUI for rails routes), leverage all the awesomeness of Glimmer in the Frontend of Rails applications 🤯 (in the workshop, I mention a new Glimmer DSL for Web that has all the features of Glimmer desktop gems tailored for Rails Frontend Development), and improve their skills in Object Oriented Programming, Software Architecture, and Software Design in general, like how to apply MVC (Model-View-Controller) & MVP (Model-View-Presenter) correctly to improve productivity and maintainability, instead of doing things the Rails MVC way, which is not completely correct. 

Here are some interesting requests I received from attendees at RubyConf 2024:

• Write a book about how to build GUI Desktop Applications with Ruby (I actually started writing such a book about 4 years ago, but then got pulled into building Glimmer DSL for LibUI and winning a Fukuoka Ruby 2022 Special Award for it; the book is still a great idea! I will keep it in mind.)
• Build a code editor that supports live GUI updates (I blogged more details about this topic here: https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-dcr-kids-programming-language.html)
• Build a Glimmer DSL for DragonRuby to simplify Game Development with a Ruby DSL

Also, during the follow-up RubyConf 2024 Hack Day Event, we got to build Hangman and a Hockey joke AI app.

Happy learning!

Here is the GitHub repository with the workshop code exercises and test solutions:

https://github.com/AndyObtiva/how-to-build-desktop-applications-in-ruby/tree/rubyconf2024

Here are the workshop presentation slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSAaFLYeyolSy2Qe2tW0djv78tA-m120i4DJyaJ4qAHoWpv5Xppn_-yIpg4_IAGntetZkRDkkuT2zXN/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000&slide=id.g140fe579a5a_0_0