Ruby-GNOME

Ruby bindings for GNOME

This is a set of bindings for the GNOME 3.x and 4.x libraries to use from Ruby.

The gems of the Ruby-GNOME projects can be easily installed with the gem command.

Here is an example to install the gtk4 gem and its dependencies:

gem install gtk4

Here are instructions for individual environments.

apt install -y gcc make ruby-dev
sudo gem install gtk4

...

...

You can also install these gems from GitHub master branch.

Create Gemfile like the following:

source "https://rubygems.org/"

git "https://github.com/ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome.git" do
  gem "gtk4"
end

Install these gems by Bundler:

% bundle install

% ruby extconf.rb
% make
% sudo make install

To compile and install a particular sub-binding, you can add arguments:

% ruby extconf.rb [subdir]...
e.g.) ruby extconf.rb glib2 pango atk gdk_pixbuf2 gtk4

Or you can compile each sub-binding:

% cd <each sub-directory>
% ruby extconf.rb
% make
% sudo make install

• --ruby

  • ruby directory

• --topsrcdir

  • top source directory

• --topdir

  • top directory

• --strict

  • if some libraries fail to compile/install, "make" command returns 1(exit 1)

Please report bugs either in our bug tracker

• https://github.com/ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome/issues (current)

or on the ruby-gnome2-devel-en / ruby-gnome2-devel-ja mailing list

• http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=53614

Copyright (c) 2002-2024 Ruby-GNOME Project Team

This program is free software. You can distribute/modify this program under the terms of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1.

Some GTK+ 3 examples are licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or any later version later; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

Because they are based on scripts in PyGObject-Tutorial. PyGObject-Tutorial is licensed under GFDL 1.3.

See gtk3/sample/ directory for details.

https://ruby-gnome.github.io/