# I’m working on GIO bind ings **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\ **Created:** [March 19, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ia-m-working-on-gio-bind-ings/163360 "2009-03-19T15:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nikolai_W)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ia-m-working-on-gio-bind-ings/163360/1 "2009-03-19T15:52:23Z")
Hi! Just wanted to let everyone know that I’m working on GIO bindings. I got fed up with FileUtils, Pathname, and File for doing my file management at work (on Windows), so I finally got around to trying to set this up. It’s been rather straightforward so far. I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the design of the bindings or any other input that can be useful. Relating to the async stuff, I think that you can easily get it down to: G::File.new(“abc”).read\_async(20) do |twenty\_bytes| puts twenty\_bytes end which reads so incredibly much nicer than in C. I must say that Alexander Larsson has designed an incredibly nice API. One thought I had was about the namespace. GFile is called just that and I don’t have a good alternative to G::File. Should it be GLib::File? Also, I’m hopefully going to be completing this at work and was wondering what the status is on ”sponsoring”? I certainly don’t care, but it would be nice to be able to tell my boss that I can get a link up on the home page, or something similar, in exchange for some of my hours at work. If not, then fine, I’ll probably be allowed to complete this at work anyway, but it might be something we should consider. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, perhaps we can add a link to the left sidebar called Sponsors and there we can list companies that allowed their developers to work on ruby-gnome2 during work hours :-). I work for the following company, if anyone cares: [Amesto | Simplifying Business](http://www.amesto.com/?catid=1497). (I am in no way responsible for the homepage.) ---
**Author:** ![Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nikolai_W)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ia-m-working-on-gio-bind-ings/163360/2 "2009-03-20T10:39:14Z")
> which reads so incredibly much nicer than in C. I hear you. 🙂 About sponsoring, I think it would be nice if we could collect all useful gnome/gtk apps written in ruby on a page - I feel that this is the best advertisement one can do, i.e. by specific working examples. But on the other hand, for example, I personally never care about companies - I care about good apps and smart people. ---
**Author:** ![Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nikolai_W)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 11:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ia-m-working-on-gio-bind-ings/163360/3 "2009-03-20T11:29:39Z")
> About sponsoring, I think it would be nice if we could collect all > useful gnome/gtk apps written in ruby on a page - I feel that this is > the best advertisement one can do, i.e. by specific working examples. ? [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Applications](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Applications) – Guillaume C. - [Guillaume Cottenceau](http://zarb.org/~gc/) ---
**Author:** ![Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nikolai_W)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ia-m-working-on-gio-bind-ings/163360/4 "2009-03-20T16:47:54Z")
Hi, In [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) “[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] I’m working on GIO bindings…” on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:50:35 +0100, Nikolai W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Just wanted to let everyone know that I’m working on GIO bindings. Great! > One thought I had was about the namespace. GFile is called just that > and I don’t have a good alternative to G::File. Should it be > GLib::File? GLib::File is better. > Also, I’m hopefully going to be completing this at work and was > wondering what the status is on ”sponsoring”? I certainly don’t care, > but it would be nice to be able to tell my boss that I can get a link > up on the home page, or something similar, in exchange for some of my > hours at work. If not, then fine, I’ll probably be allowed to > complete this at work anyway, but it might be something we should > consider. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, perhaps we can add a > link to the left sidebar called Sponsors and there we can list > companies that allowed their developers to work on ruby-gnome2 during > work hours :-). Umm, I looked at [gnome.org](http://gnome.org) but [gnome.org](http://gnome.org) doesn’t have sponsors page… What about create your page on Authors [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Authors](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Authors) and mention about “your work is sponsored by your company”? ## Thanks, kou