README - cairo-1.16.4 Documentation

# README¶ ↑

## Name¶ ↑

rcairo

## Description¶ ↑

Ruby bindings for cairo // cairo extension for Ruby

cairographics.org/

## Dependencies¶ ↑

- ruby >= 2.2.1

- cairo >= 1.2.0

## Install¶ ↑

### Package¶ ↑

This way is recommended.

    # gem install cairo

### Self build¶ ↑

For experimental users.

Add the following to your Gemfile:

    gem "cairo", github: "rcairo/rcairo"

Then run the following command:

    % bundle install

## Documents¶ ↑

- Reference manual: rcairo.github.io/doc/

- Repository of the reference manual: github.com/rcairo/doc

- An article for rcairo on Rubyst Magazine a.k.a. RubiMa (in Japanese): magazine.rubyist.net/articles/0019/0019-cairo.html

## Source¶ ↑

There is the rcairo repository at GitHub: github.com/rcairo/rcairo

## Mailing list¶ ↑

If you have trouble with cairo or rcairo, or you have some ideas for how it could be improved, please feel free to send a message to the cairo mailinglist at cairo@cairographics.org , which is archived at

cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo

## Thanks¶ ↑

- Yoshinao Muramatsu: win32 surface support patch.

- NANKI Haruo: some bug fix patches.

- Paul van Tilburg:

  - some patches that support ruby 1.9.

  - some suggestions.

- Binzo: some bug reports and fixed that.

- kimura wataru:

  - some advices for RubyCocoa.

  - reports a bug.

- OBATA Akio:

  - reports a bug.

  - some suggestions.

- James Healy: reports bugs.

- Carsten Bormann: A suggestion.

- Davide Rambaldi: A suggestion.

- Yusuke ENDOH: reports a bug.

- Yuta Taniguchi: a bug fix patch.

- kimura wataru:

  - reports a bug.

  - some patches.

- Masayas TARUI:

  - Windows support.

- Stefan Salewski: reports a bug.

- Mamoru Tasaka: reports bugs.

- Nikolai Weibull: reports problems.

- Will Bryant: reports a bug.

- Vasily Fedoseyev: fixes a bug.

- Eric C.: reports a bug.

- Cédric Boutillier: reports a bug.

- tmtms: reports a bug.