# Webcamrecorder gui with ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webcamrecorder-gui-with-ruby/112699>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 22, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webcamrecorder-gui-with-ruby/112699 "2007-08-22T11:07:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![raphael\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@raphael\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raphael_b)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webcamrecorder-gui-with-ruby/112699/1 "2007-08-22T11:07:24Z")

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Hi,

I had to build a little webcam recorder to let people leave video  
messages at a party. I’ve used VLC, Ion as a window manager, and Ruby  
with Tk to build a simplistic interface that controls VLC. I’ve  
described what I did on my blog at

> **[Building a webcam recorder with VLC, Ion and Ruby](http://blog.raphinou.com/2007/08/building-webcam-recorder-with-vlc-ion.html)**
>
> I promised to build a system to let people leave video messages at a party. The requirements were: people have to see the stream while it is...

and thought I’d share it with you. There’s no rocket science in there,  
and the ruby script is pretty short, but it’s a working solution.

cheers

Raph