# Rg3 / girffi **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\ **Created:** [October 21, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rg3-girffi/213043 "2011-10-21T14:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rg3-girffi/213043/1 "2011-10-21T14:38:39Z")
Hi, Wondering what are views of people interested/using rg2 about the future (gtk3)? What do you think about girffi or a potential rg3? Thanks – Guillaume C. ---
**Author:** ![blueprint](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@blueprint](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueprint)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rg3-girffi/213043/2 "2011-10-21T14:47:20Z")
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:37, Guillaume C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Wondering what are views of people interested/using rg2 about the > future (gtk3)? What do you think about girffi or a potential rg3? I would love to see gir being used. It would probably affect our API quite a bit, however, and I guess we need manpower for such a conversion. Many of the type-conversion functions are in place, so that part should be easy to transplant. ---
**Author:** ![blueprint](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@blueprint](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueprint)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rg3-girffi/213043/3 "2011-10-21T14:59:44Z")
There is already a gir effort for ruby gtk/gnome : > **[GitHub - mvz/gir\_ffi: Auto-generate bindings for GObject based libraries at...](https://github.com/mvz/gir_ffi)** > > Auto-generate bindings for GObject based libraries at run time using FFI - GitHub - mvz/gir\_ffi: Auto-generate bindings for GObject based libraries at run time using FFI I thought some devs knew it already, but I’m not sure now. I didn’t try it, but it seems very barebone and C’ish. It would not be too hard imo to make it behave much like rg2. ---
**Author:** ![blueprint](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@blueprint](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueprint)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rg3-girffi/213043/4 "2011-10-24T02:44:25Z")
What I love so far in GTK3 is that you can embed GTK apps in a browser. I am using firefox a LOT, since many years by now. There is now even an online IDE available in the browser: [http://www.wiode.com/](http://www.wiode.com/) It would be ABSOLUTELY AWESOME if my ruby-gtk apps could be put into a tab in firefox 🙂 For instance, I wrote a small ruby-gtk wrapper around FTP, and it works ok so far. If I could embed it into firefox, actually, I could stop using a javascript-based FTP client (cute FTP or something is its name, it is an add-on for firefox) ---
**Author:** ![blueprint](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@blueprint](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueprint)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rg3-girffi/213043/5 "2011-10-21T15:02:50Z")
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:59, Simon A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > There is already a gir effort for ruby gtk/gnome : > > [GitHub - mvz/gir\_ffi: Auto-generate bindings for GObject based libraries at run time using FFI · GitHub](https://github.com/mvz/ruby-gir-ffi) > > I thought some devs knew it already, but I’m not sure now. > > I didn’t try it, but it seems very barebone and C’ish. It would not be > too hard imo to make it behave much like rg2. I know about it and yes, it’s very must like programming C in Ruby. We can surely learn something from it, but as far as I’ve seen there’s not much we can use.