From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2010-10-19T12:13:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I play sound using ruby?

Hi,

2010/10/19 Ted Flethuseo <flethuseo@gmail.com>:
> I want to build a program where I will need to play sound from a wav
> file using ruby. Is this platform dependent? I will need this for
> windows.
>
> I tried the following:
>
> ruby-sound.rb
>
> require 'win32/sound'
> include Win32
> Sound.play('chimes.wav')
> Sound.play('c:\sounds\hal9000.wav')
>
> http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/05/adding-sound-to-your-ruby-apps.html
>
> but I get the following errors:
>
> ruby ruby-sound.rb
>
> <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require': 126: The
> specified modul
> e could not be found.   -
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-api-1.4.6-x8
> 6-mingw32/lib/win32/api.so (LoadError)
>        from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
>        from
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/windows-api-0.4.0/lib/windows/a
> pi.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
>        from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
>        from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
>        from
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/windows-pr-1.0.9/lib/windows/so
> und.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
>        from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
>        from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
>        from
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-sound-0.4.2/lib/win32/sou
> nd.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
>        from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:33:in `require'
>        from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:33:in `rescue in
> require'
>        from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
>        from ruby-sound.rb:1:in `<main>'
>
The api.so includeded in the gem package is not a correct version.
It is not MinGW compiled version but VC++ compiled version.

You can download the correct api.so for 1.9.x installer for the time being
at http://116.122.37.135/api.so

Copy api.so to C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-api-1.4.6-x86-mingw32/lib/win32/


Regards,
Park Heesob