From: David Brady <ruby_talk@...>
Date: 2005-09-03T09:38:56+09:00
Subject: Ruby "Game" (Graphics & Sound) Frameworks

What's the state of Ruby with regard to "game" frameworks, a la PyGame 
or DirectX?

Is there an easy way to say "work in a 800x600 window, here's a 
background, here's some sprites, here's a floating 3D model, here's some 
sound" and just have it work?

My own researches so far:

There exist some OpenGL bindings for Ruby from someone called "Yoshi"; I 
am unable to determine what state the project is in.  The published 
version is 0.32 and none of the files have been touched in a year.

There is a RubyGame site with a help wanted page but little else in the 
way of telling you what's there.  It hasn't reached a packagable state 
yet; I was unable to build the framework.  This is probably due to some 
oddities with SDL; I am unable after 20 minutes of fighting with apt to 
determine what SDL components my system has, let alone what version they 
are.  (sdl-config is clearly missing, but I cannot see what pkg to use 
to make it not be missing.)

If you had to do an interactive graphics-and-sound presentation in Ruby 
this weekend, where would you start?

-dB

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David Brady
ruby-talk@shinybit.com
Grizzled C++/Python/Perl hacker. New to Ruby. Take my Ruby statements with the appropriate amount of salt.
I'm having a really surreal day... OR AM I?