# What's happened to ruby-glade-create-template

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-happened-to-ruby-glade-create-template/221302>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [July 8, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-happened-to-ruby-glade-create-template/221302 "2012-07-08T02:39:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-happened-to-ruby-glade-create-template/221302/1 "2012-07-08T02:39:45Z")

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I used to prepare my glade files with the following command:

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## ruby-glade-create-template screen\_a.glade \> screen\_a.rb

However, after I’ve installed “vrm” and “Ruby 1.9.3”, I subsequently  
lost my “libglade2” library. Earlier I also noticed that for “Glade  
3.6.x” output files changed format so “ruby-glade-create-template”  
command did not work with the new format. More precisely, XML elements  
 and elements were changed to  
 and respectively. I could not find any  
documentation anywhere about these changes.

It seems that “Visual Ruby” is working without “libglade2”, however, it  
it would be nice if these things were documented somewhere, particularly  
if one desires to work with raw Glade output files, i.e. without “Visual  
Ruby”!

Does anybody know what is going on?

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**Author:** ![rooby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rooby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rooby)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-happened-to-ruby-glade-create-template/221302/2 "2012-07-11T05:46:47Z")

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Hi:

I’m sorry about your problems. The changes to the glade format are just  
a product of the newer glade version. You can try using an older  
version of glade if you like, but I would think that you would want to  
run at least version 3.6 to keep current.

The glade-create-template program is a very old script. Do you really  
need to use it?

If I remember correctly it just outputs a simple skeleton script from a  
glade file. It seems obsolete to me. Please explain what you’re trying  
to do. Perhaps I can help you.

Eric