Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME 2 development environment. It contains bindings for many of the core GNOME libraries and also some less common ones.

Supported libraries are:

Core libraries

Ruby/GLib2
the low-level core library that forms the basis
Ruby/ATK
a set of interfaces for accessibility
Ruby/Pango
layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization
Ruby/GdkPixbuf2
image loading and manipulation
Ruby/GTK2
GUI widgets


Extra libraries

Ruby/GConf2
a process-transparent configuration database, like Registry
Ruby/GNOME2
containing extra widgets
Ruby/GnomeCanvas2
a widget for creating interactive structured graphics
Ruby/GnomePrint
printing
Ruby/GnomePrintUI
GUIs for printing
Ruby/GnomeVFS
letting applications seamlessly access remote and local files
Ruby/GtkGLExt
3D rendering using OpenGL
Ruby/GtkHtml2
a HTML widget
Ruby/GtkMozeEmbed
a widget embedding a Mozilla Gecko renderer.
Ruby/GtkSourceView
a Text widget with syntax highlighting and other features typical of a source code editor.
Ruby/Libart2
handles the drawing capabilities
Ruby/Libglade2
gives applications the ability to load user interfaces from XML files at runtime. the XML files are created with GLADE user interface builder.
Ruby/PanelApplet
panel applets library for the GNOME panel.
Ruby/Poppler
a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base
Ruby/RSVG
rendering of SVG vector graphics.
Ruby/VTE
a terminal emulator widget used by GNOME terminal.


A third package, ruby-gtktrayicon, features the freedesktop.org compatible tray icon code from the
libegg with ruby bindings.

The GTK bindings support versions from GTK+ 2.6 to GTK+ 2.10.