WebViewRuby is a library that provide bindings for webview/webview a tiny tiny cross-platform webview library to build modern cross-platform GUIs. Webview uses Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10.

IMPORTANT: Compilation may not work on windows right now. Follow the progress here

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'webview_ruby'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install webview_ruby

Create a new Webview instance

webview = WebviewRuby::Webview.new

Set the size and the title of the window

webview.set_title("Example")
webview.set_size(480, 360)

Navigate to a specific webpage

webview.navigate("https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page")

Then run the main loop till its terminated (remember to always destroy the webview after it stops running)

webview.run
webview.destroy

You can bind a ruby function to a JavaScript one before the webview is in running state. To do so use the bind method like:

webview.bind("exampleFunc") do
  print("got called by js")
end

Now you can use exampleFunc as any other JS function, you can call it from the javascript that has been loaded in the webview or from the html. If you want to make a function take some parameters, just add parameters to the do block like so:

webview.bind("exampleFunc") do |arg1, arg2|
  print("got called by js with #{arg1} and #{arg2}")
end

You can only use positional arguments, keyword ones wouldn't work.

You can invoke JS code to be run asynchrounously (the result of the execution won't be returned to you) by running

webview.eval("console.log('Called from ruby')")

webview.terminate

If you want to inject JavaScript code at the initialization of the new page, such that every time the webview will open a the new page - this initialization code will be executed, then you can use

webview.init("console.log('running at initialisation')")

It is guaranteed that code is executed before window.onload.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Maaarcocr/webview_ruby. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the WebviewRuby project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.