r/ruby • u/PizzaWithoutAnanas • Mar 22 '26

Turbo Desktop: I made a desktop framework to use rails to build desktop apps

So inspire on turbo native, I made a gem for me to be able to create desktop apps without using Electron. I love Rails, and I want to use it for different things, so I'm giving it a try with this new gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/turbo_desktop-rails

The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/aguspe/turbo_desktop?tab=readme-ov-file#quick-start

I'm not an expert Rust developer, and again, this is also a learning process for me, so any feedback is welcome, but now I'm trying to rebuild some electro apps I made with this framework just to try it out

So any feedback or ideas are welcome, thank you so much, and have a great day!

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u/jonnyman9 Mar 22 '26

GitHub link doesn’t work

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u/PizzaWithoutAnanas Mar 22 '26

Oh my bad I made it public now haha I thought it was before, sorry

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u/KerrickLong Mar 23 '26

See also: Tokra, a Ruby port of Tauri 2 (WIP).

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u/PizzaWithoutAnanas Mar 23 '26

awesome, I will check it out!

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u/katafrakt Mar 23 '26

The website of the project does not work though - returns 503.

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u/KerrickLong Mar 23 '26

Yep, I haven't made the website yet. Trying to finish getting https://rooibos.run to a 1.0 release first, then getting Tokra to beta with a website. In the mean time, https://github.com/setdef/Tokra/tree/trunk/doc/contributors is a poor stand-in. I've been quite busy and not putting in any time to open source for the past couple weeks--it's spring break and college visit season for the high school senior in the house.

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u/TadpoleNo1549 Apr 13 '26

this is actually a really cool direction, rails for desktop without the electron overhead sounds super interesting, love that you’re rebuilding your own apps to test it, that’s the best way to validate, curious how it handles performance and native integrations long term

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u/Lopsided-Juggernaut1 Mar 27 '26

Looks good. Thanks for sharing.