To make a web-based game, would one use something like jruby with javafx or java web start ? Or maybe IronRuby with Silverlight? Or HotRuby with Flash? I'm currently learning Ruby so I can eventually make some sort of web-based game.

Sonja

I think you should try out all options. (And report back :) )

IronRuby with Silverlight is kind of "officially supported", right? My hunch is that it's the only of the three that's really production-ready, but at the same time, I don't have Silverlight installed and I don't know how many people do.

If nothing works, please port Gosu to HotRuby, I'd love that :P

depends on wether you want to make a web-based game (as in browser game, eg http://www.ogame.org/) or a in-browser game (like the flashgames on http://www.kongregate.com/) or a online-multiplayer game.

in any case, this is the rundown:

* flash is the de-facto industry standard if you want to write a in-browser game.
lots of online documentation, install-base is huge, etc.  silverlight is mostly used for microsofts own stuff. i think there was one java based game out-there, but that's about it.

i tried playing around with hotruby, but never got the compiling right.

for online multiplayer games (that need to be downloaded) you can use gosu, as soon as it includes the ruby standard network libraries.