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When making GUI apps, one ‘trick’ to providing some nice user feedback is to use a LED to demonstrate some kind of on/off state. LED is a bit of a misnomer here, since we’re not really using diodes, but I think you get the idea.
Here’s a quick QtRuby LED class we can use.
require 'Qt'
class [...]