# SDL in ruby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sdl-in-ruby/93881>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 12, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sdl-in-ruby/93881 "2006-04-12T22:18:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stuffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stuffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stuffer)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sdl-in-ruby/93881/1 "2006-04-12T22:18:25Z")

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What use for SDL support in ruby? I dont need extra performance for SDL,  
so usage of ruby is OK, but i cannot decide what to use.

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**Author:** ![Stuffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stuffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stuffer)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sdl-in-ruby/93881/2 "2006-04-13T00:46:24Z")

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From: “Stuffer” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

> What use for SDL support in ruby? I dont need extra performance for SDL,  
> so usage of ruby is OK, but i cannot decide what to use.

Hi, there’s also Gosu:  
[http://www.raschke.de/julian/gosu/](http://www.raschke.de/julian/gosu/)

Here’s a recent post from Florian G. about a game written in Ruby /  
Gosu,  
running on Win32 / OS X / Linux:  
[http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/187832](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/187832)

Screenshot: [http://flgr.0x42.net/gdc72h-05/final.jpg](http://flgr.0x42.net/gdc72h-05/final.jpg)

Hope this helps,

Bill