There was a precursor to this project that tried it the other-way-round. It was a Gecko app with a Ruby interpreter bolted on. There was so much fail associat

There was a precursor to this project that tried it the other-way-round. It was a Gecko app with a Ruby interpreter bolted on. There was so much fail associated with that architecture that the idea of doing Shoes (really simple cross-platform Ruby thick clients) was born.