# Ruby-GNOME2-0.16.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gnome2-0-16-0/80636>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 29, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gnome2-0-16-0/80636 "2006-12-29T15:50:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Masao\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Masao\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Masao_M)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gnome2-0-16-0/80636/1 "2006-12-29T15:50:18Z")

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Hi,

Ruby-GNOME2-0.16.0 is out. Enjoy!

# Highlights

- Fixed serious bugs (depends on GC)
- Support GTK±2.10 and the latest version of each libraries.
- Don’t include Ruby/GStreamer and Ruby/Libgda. We cancel to  
support Ruby/GStreamer and Ruby/Libgda.
- Cancel to support ruby-1.6.x and GTK±2.4 or earlier.

See the NEWS for more details:  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News\_20061229\_1](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20061229_1)

# Downloads

> **[Ruby-GNOME 2 - Browse Files at SourceForge.net](https://sourceforge.net/projects/ruby-gnome2/files/)**
>
> This project is a set of Ruby language bindings for the various application development libraries included with the GNOME/GTK+ environment.
> This…

- ruby-gtk2-x.x.x.tar.gz  
The minimum package which includes  
Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/ATK, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2.

- ruby-gnome2-all-x.x.x.tar.gz  
All Ruby-GNOME2 libraries.

- ruby-gtk2-x.x.x-x-i386-msvcrt-1.8.zip  
The binary package for One-Click Ruby Installer.  
Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/ATK, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2,  
Ruby/Libglade2, Ruby/GtkGLExt, Ruby/Libart.  
With rcairo-1.2.0.

# Thanks to

Thanks to all the people who contributed in some way to this release:  
Guillaume C., Kouhei S., Pascal T., Sjoerd S.

# What’s Ruby-GNOME2?

Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for  
the GNOME 2.x development environment.

Supported libraries are below.

== Core libraries

- Ruby/GLib2 - the low-level core library that forms the basis
- Ruby/ATK - a set of interfaces for accessibility
- Ruby/Pango - layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis  
on internationalization
- Ruby/GdkPixbuf2 - image loading and manipulation
- Ruby/GTK2 - GUI widgets

== Extra libraries

- Ruby/GConf2 - a process-transparent configuration database, like  
Registry
- Ruby/GNOME2 - containing extra widgets
- Ruby/GnomeCanvas2 - a widget for creating interactive structured  
graphics
- Ruby/GnomePrint - printing
- Ruby/GnomePrintUI - GUIs for printing
- Ruby/GnomeVFS - letting applications seamlessly access remote and  
local files
- Ruby/GStreamer - mulimedia framework for Audio/Video
- Ruby/GtkGLExt - 3D rendering using OpenGL
- Ruby/GtkHtml2 - a HTML widget
- Ruby/GtkMozeEmbed - a widget embedding a Mozilla Gecko renderer.
- Ruby/GtkSourceView- a Text widget with syntax highlighting and other  
features typical of a source  
code editor.
- Ruby/Libart2 - handles the drawing capabilities
- Ruby/Libgda - an interface to the GDA(GNU Data Access)  
architecture  
to access data sources such as  
Databases, LDAP.
- Ruby/Libglade2 - gives applications the ability to load user  
interfaces  
from XML files at runtime. the XML  
files are created  
with GLADE user interface builder.
- Ruby/PanelApplet - panel applets library for the GNOME panel.
- Ruby/Poppler - a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0  
code base
- Ruby/RSVG - rendering of SVG vector graphics.
- Ruby/VTE - a terminal emulator widget used by GNOME  
terminal.

# Resources

- Mailing lists  
[Ruby-GNOME 2 Mailing Lists](http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=53614)

- Project website  
(English) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/)  
(Spanish) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/es/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/es/)  
(French) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/fr/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/fr/)  
(German) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/de/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/de/)  
(Italian) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/it/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/it/)  
(Japanese) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/)  
(Portuguese(BR)) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/pt\_BR/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/pt_BR/)

- Ruby-GNOME2 API Reference  
(English)  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby-GNOME2+API+Reference](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby-GNOME2+API+Reference)  
(Japanese)  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/hiki.cgi?Ruby-GNOME2+API+Reference](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/hiki.cgi?Ruby-GNOME2+API+Reference)

- Tutorials  
(English) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?tutorials](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?tutorials)  
(French)  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/fr/hiki.cgi?tutoriels](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/fr/hiki.cgi?tutoriels)  
(German)  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/de/hiki.cgi?tutoriais](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/de/hiki.cgi?tutoriais)  
(Italian)  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/it/hiki.cgi?tutorials](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/it/hiki.cgi?tutorials)  
(Japanese)  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/hiki.cgi?tutorials](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/hiki.cgi?tutorials)  
(Portuguese(BR))  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/pt\_BR/hiki.cgi?tutoriais](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/pt_BR/hiki.cgi?tutoriais)

- Samples  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Samples](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Samples)

- Other resources  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Links](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Links)

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**Author:** ![Masao\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Masao\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Masao_M)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gnome2-0-16-0/80636/2 "2007-01-02T09:07:08Z")

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Masao M. wrote:

> - Cancel to support ruby-1.6.x and GTK±2.4 or earlier.  
> Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/ATK, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2.  
> Thanks to
> 
> - Ruby/GNOME2 - containing extra widgets
> 
> - Ruby/Libart2 - handles the drawing capabilities  
> Resources  
> (Japanese) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/)  
> (German) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/de/hiki.cgi?tutoriais](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/de/hiki.cgi?tutoriais)  
> (Italian) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/it/hiki.cgi?tutorials](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/it/hiki.cgi?tutorials)  
> (Japanese) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/hiki.cgi?tutorials](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/hiki.cgi?tutorials)  
> (Portuguese(BR)) [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/pt\_BR/hiki.cgi?tutoriais](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/pt_BR/hiki.cgi?tutoriais)
> 
> - Samples  
> [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Samples](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Samples)
> 
> - Other resources  
> [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Links](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Links)

Masao, you rock!!! Many thanks for this release!!!

Tom

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**Author:** ![Masao\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Masao\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Masao_M)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gnome2-0-16-0/80636/3 "2007-01-02T18:02:55Z")

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Hey, nice work 🙂

I’m wondering what it would take to update the GStreamer library to  
0.10.  
It’s kinda sad to have to drop this lib.

Cheers,  
zimba
