README¶ ↑

Name¶ ↑

rcairo

Description¶ ↑

Ruby bindings for cairo // cairo extension for Ruby

cairographics.org/

Dependencies¶ ↑

• ruby >= 1.8 (1.9.2 also supported!)

• cairo >= 1.2.0 (1.10.0 also supported!)

Install¶ ↑

Package¶ ↑

This way is recommended.

# gem install cairo

Self build¶ ↑

For experimental users.

Download rcairo-X.Y.Z.tar.gz from cairographics.org/releases/

Extracting:

% tar xvzf rcairo-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

Compiling:

% cd rcairo-X.Y.Z
% ruby extconf.rb    # to check for dependencies and create Makefiles
% make               # to compile

# make install       # to install the cairo extension.

# The samples in the samples folder should be able # to run before installation except text-on-path.rb # and text2.rb. They uses Ruby/Pango with rcairo # support. So you need to install rcairo and build # Ruby/Pango with it before you run them.

Windows¶ ↑

cairo-X.Y.Z-x86-mswin32.gem includes cairo related binaries.

• cairo related binaries: ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/

  • cairo-X.Y.Z-a_win32.zip

  • cairo-dev-X.Y.Z-a_win32.zip

  • libpng-X.Y.Z-a_win32.zip

  • zlib-X.Y.Z-a_win32.zip

  • expat_X.Y.Z-a_win32.zip

  • fontconfig_X.Y.Z-a_win32.zip

  • freetype_X.Y.Z-a_win32.zip

Documents¶ ↑

• Reference manual: cairo.rubyforge.org/doc/

• Repository of the reference manual: github.com/rcairo/doc

• An article for rcairo on Rubyst Magazine a.k.a. RubiMa (in Japanese): jp.rubyist.net/magazine/?0019-cairo

Source¶ ↑

There is the rcairo repository at GitHub: github.com/rcairo/rcairo

Mailing list¶ ↑

If you have trouble with cairo or rcairo, or you have some ideas for how it could be improved, please feel free to send a message to the cairo mailinglist at [email protected] , which is archived at

cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo

Thanks¶ ↑

• Yoshinao Muramatsu: win32 surface support patch.

• NANKI Haruo: some bug fix patches.

• Paul van Tilburg:

  • some patches that support ruby 1.9.

  • some suggestions.

• Binzo: some bug reports and fixed that.

• kimura wataru:

  • some advices for RubyCocoa.

  • reports a bug.

• OBATA Akio:

  • reports a bug.

  • some suggestions.

• James Healy: reports bugs.

• Carsten Bormann: A suggestion.

• Davide Rambaldi: A suggestion.

• Yusuke ENDOH: reports a bug.

• Yuta Taniguchi: a bug fix patch.

• kimura wataru:

  • reports a bug.

  • some patches.

• Masayas TARUI:

  • Windows support.

• Stefan Salewski: reports a bug.

• Mamoru Tasaka: reports a bug.