title: New version for the gems of the Ruby-GNOME2 project
The gems of the Ruby-GNOME2 project are updated to the version 3.1.0.
Those new versions bring:
- improvements in GObject Introspection based bindings.
- improvements in Gtk3 gem
- new Gtk3 demos have been added
- bug fixes
- and more see:
* https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/blob/master/NEWS
* http://ruby-gnome2.osdn.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20160812_1
= About the ruby-gnome2 project
As a reminder, and for those that didn’t know, the Ruby-GNOME2 project
is a set of bindings for the GNOME 2.x and 3.x libraries to use from
Ruby 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.
The Ruby-GNOME2 project provides the following gems:
- atk
- cairo-gobject
- clutter
- clutter-gdk
- clutter-gstreamer
- clutter-gtk
- gdk_pixbuf2
- gdk3
- gio2
- glib2
- gnumeric
- gobject-introspection
- goffice
- gstreamer
- gsf
- gtk2
- gtk3
- gtksourceview2
- gtksourceview3
- gvlc
- pango
- poppler
- rsvg2
- vte
- vte3
- webkit-gtk
- webkit2-gtk
- webkit-gtk2
Since the version 3.0.0, the Ruby-GNOME2 gems are based on the
gobject-instropection whenever it is possible. The platforms supported
are Linux, Windows and OS X.
In order to install a gem (gtk3 for example) just do :
gem install gtk3
Sites for the project:
GitHub - ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome: A set of bindings for the GNOME libraries to use from Ruby.
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/
= About GTK+
from http://www.gtk.org/
GTK+ is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating
graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform
compatibility and an easy to use API. GTK+ it is written
in C, but has bindings to many other popular programming
languages such as C++, Python and C# among others. GTK+ is
licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 allowing development of
both free and proprietary software with GTK+ without any
license fees or royalties.
= About GNOME
from About Us – GNOME
The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop
environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for
users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive
framework for building applications that integrate into
the rest of the desktop.
