by Matijs van Zuijlen
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Ruby bindings for GNOME using the GObject Introspection Repository.
Create bindings to any GObject-based library.
Bindings generated at runtime.
Provides overridden bindings for selected methods.
Install 'gir_ffi-gtk' and require 'gir_ffi-gtk2' or 'gir_ffi-gtk3' to load overrides for Gtk2 or Gtk3.
require 'gir_ffi' # Set up the namespace you wish to use GirFFI.setup :Gio # Create an object inet_address = Gio::InetAddress.new_from_string "127.0.0.1" # Call some methods on the object inet_address.is_loopback # => true inet_address.is_multicast # => false # Call a function in the namespace Gio.dbus_is_name "foo" # => false
gem install gir_ffi
GirFFI should work on MRI 1.8, 1.9 and 2.0, JRuby in both 1.8 and 1.9 modes, and on Rubinius in both 1.8 and 1.9 modes.
You will also need gobject-introspection installed with some introspection data.
Depending on the GIR data, GirFFI needs the
actual libraries to be available under the name ending in plain
.so
. If GirFFI complains that it
cannot find the library, try installing development packages for those
libraries.
GirFFI is developed on Debian sid, and tested through Travis CI on Ubuntu 12.04. Older versions of gobject-introspection than the ones used there are therefore not officially supported (although they may work).
On Debian and Ubuntu, installing libgirepository1.0-dev
and
gobject-introspection
should be enough to get rake
test
working.
GirFFI has not been tested on Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. YMMV.
Sometimes, the GIR data is incorrect, or not detailed enough, and a reasonable binding cannot be created automatically. For these cases, overrides can be defined. The following gems with overrides already exist:
gir_ffi-gtk
: overrides for Gtk+ 2 and 3.
gir_ffi-cairo
: overrides for Cairo
gir_ffi-pango
: overrides for Pango
gir_ffi-tracker
: overrides for Tracker
If you want to help out, have a look at TODO.rdoc, and check the notes in the code (e.g.,
using dnote
). Feel free to file bugs or send pull requests.
If you want to send pull requests or patches, please:
Make sure rake test
runs without reporting any failures. If
your code breaks existing stuff, it won't get merged in.
Add tests for your feature. Otherwise, I can't see if it works or if I break it later.
Make sure latest master merges cleanly with your branch. Things might have moved around since you forked.
Try not to include changes that are irrelevant to your feature in the same commit.
Copyright © 2009–2013 Matijs van Zuijlen
GirFFI is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later. See the file COPYING.LIB for more information.