Using an SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) wrapper is one way to play sound and music with Ruby. I have tested this snippet with .MID .MOD and .WAV files and it performs well. There are several SDL...

Along comes Boo, looks like Python and Ruby rolled into one, and you can compile it to an executable file, or use it in the shell.

http://boo.codehaus.org/

Ruby looks a lot like Python. The Python syntax, at least to me, looks cleaner. I do like the help file that comes with Ruby.

Hi Dark,

beats watching the stupefying TV. Thanks for the Ruby site. Here is an excellent site called the C# school:
http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Les_CSharp_0

They go really into the...

Ruby and Python are neat and easy to learn, a good replacement for the old interpreted basic language like Mbasic or Qbasic. If you want to go on with life, learn Csharp!

Pure genius Dark!

Here is the same in Python ...

print "Hello, World! I am writing in the Python programming language"

How are your C# efforts coming along?

Okay Dark,
I expectect your scientific treatise on dichromatic bit warp in hyperspace by the end of the year! Ruby should make the postulates easy!

Got FXRuby to go.
I installed a slightly older version
FXRuby-1[1].0.29-ruby181.exe
since I hadn't read up on the .gem file install. Your snippets work well and I found a load of FX code...

The samples I ran were console samples that came with Ruby. I was hoping the results would show up in the Output View of FreeRide. Looks like I have to put the directive #!/usr/bin/env ruby in at...

Just to let you know that I have been smitten by Ruby thanks to your ruby snippets. I downloaded the whole shmaltz including FxRuby from: http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxruby

I let you know how...

Greetings Dark! I downloaded Ruby. The sample codes look a little like a mix of Python, Java and C. Got the FreeRide IDE going, cute, but nothing shows up in the output window after running the...

I always wondered what ruby looked like.

Thanks Dark