From: "tommylil@..." <tommylil@...>
Date: 2007-09-22T15:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Playing Wav file in Ruby

On Sep 22, 8:38 am, Andy Korth <andy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> tommy...@gmail.com wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > 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.
>
> > Tommy
>
> Ah yes, sorry for lack of clarification. Playsound is part of SDL, but
> it opens an application, puts it in the dock, plays the sound and exits.
> It's very awkward for running inside a script. I suspect I will have to
> look into SDL bindings... very overkill perhaps.
>
> Thanks Konrad and Tommy for the quick replies.
>
> -Andy
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I got a plain commandline version of playsound running on my Mac, that
won't open up any apps in the dock.. Have a look here:
http://steike.com/code/playsound/ (think this is it). And Konrad,
sorry for being fuzzy.

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