README¶ ↑

Name¶ ↑

rcairo

Description¶ ↑

Ruby bindings for cairo // cairo extension for Ruby

cairographics.org/

Dependencies¶ ↑

• ruby >= 2.2.1

• cairo >= 1.2.0

Install¶ ↑

Package¶ ↑

This way is recommended.

# gem install cairo

Self build¶ ↑

For experimental users.

Add the following to your Gemfile:

gem "cairo", github: "rcairo/rcairo"

Then run the following command:

% bundle install

Documents¶ ↑

• Reference manual: rcairo.github.io/doc/

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

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

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 bugs.

• Nikolai Weibull: reports problems.

• Will Bryant: reports a bug.

• Vasily Fedoseyev: fixes a bug.

• Eric C.: reports a bug.

• Cédric Boutillier: reports a bug.

• tmtms: reports a bug.