I am running Ruby in Windows (not via Cygwin.) How can I generate PNG files (or GIF or JPG files for that matter) in my Ruby scripts? Ruby-GD requires compilation, even if I have the native Windows GD dlls available. I *could* run Ruby under Cygwin but I'm trying to avoid that if possible. I am new to Ruby and am not sure where to dig. RAA didn't turn up anything I could see.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Aaron
Aaron Dalton wrote:
I am running Ruby in Windows (not via Cygwin.) How can I generate PNG files (or GIF or JPG files for that matter) in my Ruby scripts? Ruby-GD requires compilation, even if I have the native Windows GD dlls available. I *could* run Ruby under Cygwin but I'm trying to avoid that if possible. I am new to Ruby and am not sure where to dig. RAA didn't turn up anything I could see.
You could, for example, dig for RMagick: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/
When looking for Ruby stuff, libs app or whatever, rubyforge is a good place to start looking. And the RAA is, too.
HTH
Happy rubying
Stephan
Stephan Kämper wrote:
Aaron Dalton wrote:
I am running Ruby in Windows (not via Cygwin.) How can I generate PNG files (or GIF or JPG files for that matter) in my Ruby scripts? Ruby-GD requires compilation, even if I have the native Windows GD dlls available. I *could* run Ruby under Cygwin but I'm trying to avoid that if possible. I am new to Ruby and am not sure where to dig. RAA didn't turn up anything I could see.
You could, for example, dig for RMagick: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/
When looking for Ruby stuff, libs app or whatever, rubyforge is a good place to start looking. And the RAA is, too.
HTH
Happy rubying
Stephan
Oooo! I didn't know ImageMagick could draw too. Thanks for the tip. It looks like it will work fine.
Thanks for your time!
Aaron
Aaron Dalton wrote:
Oooo! I didn't know ImageMagick could draw too. Thanks for the tip.
It looks like it will work fine.
Aaron, if you want to use RMagick for drawing, check out
http://rvg.rubyforge.org. It's an pure-Ruby add-on library for RMagick that
provides a higher-level drawing API. It's still alpha but very reliable and
I'm working on it almost every day. When it reaches 1.0.0 I'll make it part
of the RMagick package.