From: Konrad Meyer <konrad@...>
Date: 2007-09-22T15:06:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Playing Wav file in Ruby

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Quoth tommylil@gmail.com:
> On Sep 22, 4:18 am, Andy Korth <andy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've tried invoking applications that would play a sound through the
> > system command, but none of them have worked very well.
>=20
> You do get it to play that way, right? I ran into the same situation a
> few weeks ago, ending up doing the very same thing u did, calling an
> external app. Simply using `playsound #{file}` will do. But if there
> is any libraries making it possible to do it natively from Ruby
> (without having to start writing one ourselves), I would love to hear
> about it.
>=20
> Tommy

Any of the game libraries / SDL bindings ought to do the trick (that's as
close to native as you'll find). `playsound' isn't a program on my system,
so it wouldn't work for me. Find a command on your system (sorry I don't
know MacOSX at all) to play it, and that'll be fine for small scripts.

HTH,
=2D-=20
Konrad Meyer <konrad@tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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