# Re: Is there shape drawing tool (like PHP) in Ruby? I don't

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**Created:** [November 23, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-there-shape-drawing-tool-like-php-in-ruby-i-dont/48714 "2005-11-23T20:08:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-there-shape-drawing-tool-like-php-in-ruby-i-dont/48714/1 "2005-11-23T20:08:22Z")

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It was a great information that it is possible to use SVG in Ruby.  
Thanks for that. 🙂

But, I don’t want to require users to install plug-ins.  
And I don’t need any vector feature.  
What I need is a simple drawing tool.  
Isn’t there any?

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**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-there-shape-drawing-tool-like-php-in-ruby-i-dont/48714/2 "2005-11-23T20:16:25Z")

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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Sung Soo K. wrote:

> It was a great information that it is possible to use SVG in Ruby.  
> Thanks for that. 🙂
> 
> But, I don’t want to require users to install plug-ins.

See which browsers they have, and which support SVG already.  
many do now.

> And I don’t need any vector feature.  
> What I need is a simple drawing tool.

Simple drawing && no vectors? I don’t know.

This any good?

[http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/](http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/)

It’s really for web log stats but…

> Isn’t there any?

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    Hugh

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**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-there-shape-drawing-tool-like-php-in-ruby-i-dont/48714/3 "2005-11-23T20:36:33Z")

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RMagick has some drawing methods:  
[http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/portfolio3.html](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/portfolio3.html)  
Download: [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org)

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**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-there-shape-drawing-tool-like-php-in-ruby-i-dont/48714/4 "2005-11-23T21:00:48Z")

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On 11/24/05, Sung Soo K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> On 11/23/05, Hugh S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > > tools… but I don’t want to use PHP…)

Hi,

I don’t know what drawing library in PHP are you saying.  
In PHP, image\* functions[1](http://kr2.php.net/gd) are just wrappers for GD library.  
Ruby also has several bindings for GD library.

- gRuby: [gRuby Project](http://gruby.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html)
- Ruby/GD2: [http://rubyurl.com/yNW](http://rubyurl.com/yNW)
- ruby-gd: [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-gd/](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-gd/)

BTW, I think ImageMagick has more powerful features than GD.  
See rmagick: [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/)

More graphics libraries can be found on RAA:  
[http://rubyurl.com/YNK](http://rubyurl.com/YNK)