ruby-wads

A number of Ruby Gosu-based (W)idgets (a)nd (D)ata (S)tructures for your applications.

The user guide and examples can be found at https://www.rubydoesitagain.com

Wads (Widgets and Data Structures) is intended to help you quickly build native Ruby applications using the Gosu gem. GUI widgets, such as tables and buttons, are provided to simplify building graphical applications. Widgets in wads can be used independently within your Gosu app, or you can use wads as a holistic GUI framework. Wads includes basic features found in many GUI toolkits including The use of themes and a layout manager.

One of the motivations for creating wads is to making data analysis, games, and productivity applications using Ruby easier to do. Data structures are included that can be used for statistical analysis or graph-based applications. The samples provided illustrate both use cases (Stocks - stats) and Star Wars character interactions (graphs).

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'wads'

And then run bundle install.

To see ruby wads in use, run the sample application using the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/dbroemme/ruby-wads.git
cd ruby-wads
./bin/setup
./run
./run-sample-app -s

This will run the sample NASDAQ stocks analysis that features the use of the Stats class, and a table Gosu widget used to display the results of the analysis.

You can also see the graph capabilities by running the Star Wars analysis example. This uses a data set that captures all character interactions within Episode 4.

./run-sample-app -j

There is also a sample Graph display using the following command.

./run-sample-app -g

Note that you can construct graphs in one of two ways. The first approach uses Nodes directly.

root = Node.new("a")
b = root.add("b")
b.add("d")
b.add("e").add("f")
root.add("c")
Graph.new(root)

The second approach uses an overarching Graph object.

g = Graph.new 
g.add("a")
g.add("b")
g.add("c")
g.add("d")
g.add("e")
g.add("f")
g.connect("a", "b")
g.connect("a", "c")
g.connect("b", "d")
g.connect("b", "e")
g.connect("e", "f")

Currently, the Graph object is used by the Graph Widget for display. For the code above, this appears by default as follows:

The Star Wars data set is courtesy of: Gabasova, E. (2016). Star Wars social network. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1411479.