# \[ANN\] Ruby-GNOME2 1.2.1

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**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [January 30, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-1-2-1/225805 "2013-01-30T15:22:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-1-2-1/225805/1 "2013-01-30T15:22:16Z")

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Hi,

The Ruby-GNOME2 project released Ruby-GNOME2 1.2.1:  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News\_20130130\_1](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20130130_1)

Many people help us for the release! Thanks!

This release fixes a crash bug on Mac OS X.

We can confirm that Ruby/GTK3 works on Windows. Thanks for  
confirming it! But we have a problem for look & feel. So  
this release bundles Greybird theme for Windows. It will  
improve look & feel on Windows.

[GitHub - shimmerproject/Greybird: Desktop Suite for Xfce](https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird)

For Ruby/GTK2 and Ruby/GTK3, Gtk::TreeIter related memory  
leak is fixed. If you are using Gtk::TreeIter, we recommend  
that you upgrade to 1.2.1.

We add Ruby/WebKitGtk bindings. You can install it by the  
following command:

gem install webkit-gtk

It is implemented by GObject Introspection.

== Help us!

We want to replace existing bindings by GObject  
Introspection based bindings. If the bindings is GObject  
Introspection ready. To be specific, first we want to  
replace Ruby/GStreamer and Ruby/GooCanvas with GObject  
Introspection based bindings. We want you to help us for the  
work.

GStreamer and GooCanvas has many API. So their bindings  
aren’t completed yet. Their bindings are still  
“experimental”. And their bindings don’t support the latest  
version yet. (GStreamer 1.0.0 had been released!)  
If we get GObject Introspection based bindings, we can  
support the latest version semi automatically. Both  
developers and users will be happy.

To be specific, we want you to port sample programs for them  
to Ruby.

We create raw GObject Introspection based bindings of them.

For GStreamer:  
[https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/blob/master/gstreamer/sample/gst-gi.rb](https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/blob/master/gstreamer/sample/gst-gi.rb)  
For GooCanvas:  
[https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/blob/master/goocanvas/sample/goocanvas-gi.rb](https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/blob/master/goocanvas/sample/goocanvas-gi.rb)

We want you to port sample programs of GStreamer and  
GooCanvas to Ruby by requiring those bindings.

Here are work flows to start the work.

For GStreamer:

% gem install gobject-introspection  
% git clone removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid:ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2.git  
% cd ruby-gnome2/gstreamer  
% cd vim sample/xxx.rb  
require “gst-gi”  
Gst.init

# Port a sample

% ruby -I sample sample/xxx.rb

You can find samples for GStreamer at  
[http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/tests/examples/](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/tests/examples/)

For example:  
[http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/tests/examples/helloworld/helloworld.c](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/tests/examples/helloworld/helloworld.c)

For GooCanvas:

% gem install gobject-introspection  
% git clone removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid:ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2.git  
% cd ruby-gnome2/goocanvas  
% cd vim sample/xxx.rb  
require “goocanvas-gi”

# Port a sample

% ruby -I sample sample/xxx.rb

You can find samples for GooCanvas at  
[demo · master · GNOME / goocanvas · GitLab](http://git.gnome.org/browse/goocanvas/tree/demo)

We are happy that you send a pull request for a sample.

You may find a sample that can’t be ported well. If you find  
it, please tell us by pull request or sending an email to  
this mailing list. The sample may use a feature that is not  
implemented in Ruby/GObjectIntrospection.

== Ruby-GNOME2 1.2.1: 2013-01-30

GTK+ 3 support on Mac OS X release!

=== Changes

==== Ruby/GLib2

- Improvements
  - Supported custom sudo prompt on auto native package install.  
[GitHub:126] [Suggested by Yorick Peterse]
  - Started to support JRuby. (It is not completed yet.)  
[GitHub:125] [Reported by vpereira]
  - Accepted unsigned long int size GType.
  - Removed DL support.
  - Don’t call deprecated g\_type\_init() for GLib \>= 2.35.1.

==== Ruby/GTK2

- Fixes
  - Fixed a memory leak related Gtk::TreeIter.  
[GitHub:128] [Patch by Toshiaki Asai]

==== Ruby/GTK3

- Fixes
  - Fixed a memory leak related Gtk::TreeIter.  
[GitHub:128] [Patch by Toshiaki Asai]
  - Fixed a crash bug caused by symbol conflict with Ruby/GDK3 on  
Mac OS X.  
[GitHub:127] [Reported by Sergio C.a] [Helped by Watson]

==== Ruby/GDK3

- Improvements
  - [windows] Bundled Greybird theme.  
[Suggested by Regis d’Aubarede]

==== Ruby/GooCanvas

- Improvements
  - Added Goo::Canvas#get\_items\_at [GitHub:124] [Patch by David  
Maciejak]

==== Ruby/WebKitGTK

- Added

==== Ruby/GtkSourceView3

- Improvements
  - Supported Windows.

=== Thanks

- David M.
- Yorick Peterse
- vpereira
- Toshiaki Asai
- Sergio C.a
- Watson
- Regis d’Aubarede

## Thanks,

kou