# Ruby-GNOME2 0.18.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gnome2-0-18-0/149872>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 30, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gnome2-0-18-0/149872 "2008-09-30T18:13:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kouhei_S)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gnome2-0-18-0/149872/1 "2008-09-30T18:13:34Z")

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Hi,

The Ruby-GNOME2 project project has been released  
Ruby-GNOME2 0.18.0:  
[Ruby-GNOME 2 - Browse Files at SourceForge.net](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614)

Enjoy!

== Highlights

- Fix memory leak bugs.
- Add xperimental packages:
  - Ruby/GtkSourceView2
  - Ruby/GooCanvas

See the NEWS for more details:  
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News\_20080930\_1](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20080930_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.

== Thanks

- OBATA Akio
- James H.
- Ricky Zheng
- Guillaume C.
- Ricky Zheng

== 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/GooCanvas - a canvas widget for GTK+ that uses  
the cairo 2D library for drawing.
- 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.  
(for gtksourceview 1.x)
- Ruby/GtkSourceView2 (for gtksourceview 2.x)
- 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)

== Help us!

We need to people who helps us. Ruby-GNOME2 project needs  
more resources to develop bindings, write documents, release  
constantly, and more.

If you interested Ruby-GNOME2 project, please send a mail to  
the ruby-gnome2-devel-en ML.

Thanks,
