# Change emblem from folders/icons from ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-emblem-from-folders-icons-from-ruby/185138>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 14, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-emblem-from-folders-icons-from-ruby/185138 "2010-03-14T23:10:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-emblem-from-folders-icons-from-ruby/185138/1 "2010-03-14T23:10:01Z")

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Hi!

There is any way to change folders/icons emblems from ruby or maybe from  
a shell script that i can call from ruby?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-emblem-from-folders-icons-from-ruby/185138/2 "2010-03-14T23:27:20Z")

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Diego B. wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> There is any way to change folders/icons emblems from ruby or maybe from  
> a shell script that i can call from ruby?
> 
> Thanks!

I think that Dropbox use libnautilus to do this, i dont know have any  
lib to do this.