# \[ANN\] Ruby-GNOME2 1.2.3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-1-2-3/227482>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [March 17, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-1-2-3/227482 "2013-03-17T13:53:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kouhei_S)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-1-2-3/227482/1 "2013-03-17T13:53:09Z")

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Hi,

The Ruby-GNOME2 project released Ruby-GNOME2 1.2.3:  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News\_20130317\_2](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20130317_2)  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News\_20130317\_1](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20130317_1)

(Ruby-GNOME2 1.2.2 also had been released but I don’t  
announced yet. Sorry.)

This release supports Ruby 2.0.0! Windows binary gems  
include binaries for Ruby 1.9.3 and Ruby 2.0.0. Ruby 1.8.7  
support is dropped.

== 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 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-gi  
% vim sample/xxx.rb  
require “gst”  
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  
% 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)

And we want to use GObject Introspection for new bindings  
such as Ruby/WebKitGTK. There are the bindings but it  
doesn’t have ported samples. We need to port WebKitGTK+  
samples to create usable API. Here is work flow to start the  
work:

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

# Port a sample

% ruby -I sample sample/xxx.rb

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 1.2.3: 2013-03-17

Clean up release!

=== Changes

==== Ruby/GTK2

- Remove needless signale handlers restore.

==== Ruby/GTK3

- Remove needless signale handlers restore.

== Ruby-GNOME2 1.2.2: 2013-03-11

Ruby 2.0.0 support release!

=== Changes

==== Ruby/GLib2

- Improvements
  - Supported test on Ruby 2.0.0.  
[GitHub #134] [Reported by mtasaka]

==== Ruby/Poppler

- Improvements
  - Removed deprecated GDK support.

==== Ruby/GDK3

- Improvements
  - Supported Ruby 2.0.0.  
[GitHub#129] [Reported by TOMITA Masahiro]

==== Ruby/GObjectIntrospection

- Improvements
  - Supported not GType based flags.
  - Supported not GType based enum.
  - Supported custom callback function.
  - Supported .h install.
  - Supported .pc install.
  - More Rubyish method names are used.
  - Stopped to raise exception when there are two or more out  
parameters.
  - Added Loader.start\_callback\_dispatch\_thread().
  - Supported arguments validation.
  - Stopped to use array for just one return value.
  - Supported Enumerator.
  - Hide constructor methods.

==== Ruby/GtkSourceView3

- Fixes
  - Fixed wrong deb package name.

==== Ruby/Clutter

- Fixes
  - Fixed wrong initialized check.
  - Stopped to override Clutter.init unexpectedly.

==== Ruby/ClutterGTK

- Fixes
  - Fixed wrong initialized check.

==== Ruby/WebKitGTK

- Fixes
  - Fixed wrong initialized check.

=== Thanks

- Vincent C.  
(for unreleased GObjectIntrospection based GStreamer bindings)
- TOMITA Masahiro
- NAKAJIMA Takashi  
(for unreleased GObjectIntrospection based GStreamer bindings)
- mtasaka

## Thanks,

kou