For those of you who don't need the newer features of Shoes 4, there's the "green shoes" [1] version of the project, which only needs GTK and doesn't need Java.

For those of you who don't need the newer features of Shoes 4, there's the "green shoes" [1] version of the project, which only needs GTK and doesn't need Java. You just need to do "gem install green_shoes" and "require 'green_shoes'" and you're good to go. I've used green shoes for a bunch of simple utilities :) [1]: http://ashbb.github.io/green_shoes/ http://ashbb.github.io/green_shoes/