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Ruby-GNOME2 0.14.0 has been released!

Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Yesterday (16 October 2005) Ruby GNOME2 0.14.0 was released.

This new release mainly features updated support for:

  • GNOME 2.12 (Ruby/Libglade2, Ruby/GNOME, Ruby/GnomeCanvas2, Ruby/GnomePrint, Ruby/GnomePrintUI, Ruby/RSVG),
  • Gtk and GLib 2.8 (Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/GTK2, Ruby/GLib2),
  • ATK 1.10 (Ruby/ATK),
  • GtkSourceView 1.4 (Ruby/GtkSourceView),
  • Pango 1.10 (Ruby/Pango) and
  • Ruby Cairo (rcairo) 1.0.0 (Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/GTK2).

Also was Cygwin support added for Ruby/GConf2, Ruby/GnomeVFS and Ruby/Libgda2.
Next to the support updates Ruby/GtkMozEmbed was merged and there were more minor bug fixes and improvements.

What is Ruby-GNOME2?

Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME 2.x platform. Not only is it just a mapping of the C API to Ruby syntax but also tailored to provide a more Rubyish-feel and semantics.

Ruby-GNOME2 includes the following packages & libraries:

* ruby-gtk2 package:
Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/ATK, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2
* ruby-gnome2-all package:
ruby-gtk2, Ruby/GnomeCanvas2, Ruby/GNOME2, Ruby/Libart2, Ruby/Libglade2, Ruby/GConf2, Ruby/GnomeVFS, Ruby/GtkGLExt, Ruby/GtkHtml2, Ruby/Libgda, Ruby/GStreamer, Ruby/GtkSourceView, Ruby/PanelApplet, Ruby/GnomePrint, Ruby/GnomePrintUI, Ruby/RSVG
* ruby-gtktrayicon package: Ruby/GtkTrayIcon
* ruby-gtkmozembed package: Ruby/GtkMozEmbed

Ruby support

I hope to see soon also ruby support for Nautilus and Epiphany plugin system!!