How can I play sound using ruby?

Ruby
1

I want to build a program where I will need to play sound from a wav
file using ruby. Is this platform dependent? I will need this for
windows.

I tried the following:

ruby-sound.rb

require ‘win32/sound’
include Win32
Sound.play(‘chimes.wav’)
Sound.play(‘c:\sounds\hal9000.wav’)

but I get the following errors:

ruby ruby-sound.rb

internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require:29:in require': 126: The specified modul e could not be found. - C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-api-1.4.6-x8 6-mingw32/lib/win32/api.so (LoadError) from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in require’
from
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/windows-api-0.4.0/lib/windows/a
pi.rb:1:in <top (required)>' from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in require’
from internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require:29:in require' from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/windows-pr-1.0.9/lib/windows/so und.rb:1:in <top (required)>’
from internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require:29:in require' from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in require’
from
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-sound-0.4.2/lib/win32/sou
nd.rb:1:in <top (required)>' from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:33:in require’
from internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require:33:in rescue in require' from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in require’
from ruby-sound.rb:1:in `’

Ted.

2

Hi,

2010/10/19 Ted F. [email protected]:

Sound.play(‘chimes.wav’)
e could not be found. -
und.rb:1:in `<top (required)>’

The api.so includeded in the gem package is not a correct version.
It is not MinGW compiled version but VC++ compiled version.

You can download the correct api.so for 1.9.x installer for the time
being
at http://116.122.37.135/api.so

Copy api.so to
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-api-1.4.6-x86-mingw32/lib/win32/

Regards,
Park H.

3

On 18/10/2010 23:41, Ted F. wrote:

Sound.play(‘chimes.wav’)
e could not be found. -
und.rb:1:in `<top (required)>’

Have you installed the win32-api gem?

Jim

4

What has suggested by Park, worked… Thank you Park.