gd2-ffij - Ruby FFI Bindings for Thomas Boutell’s gd 2.x Graphics Library

The gd2-ffij project page can be found at github.com/dark-panda/gd2-ffij .

Why FFI

DL just doesn’t want to work correctly on my x86_64 linux boxes and on OSX, so here’s a refactoring using FFI.

These modifications were partly inspired by Patrick Stenmark’s work, which can be found at github.com/spatrik/gd2-ffi/, although the goal of these modifications are a complete GD2 Ruby library using FFI. I’ve also included the beginning of a test suite, although coverage isn’t quite complete yet.

This GD2 library should “just work” as a replacement for Robert’s original GD2 library, although without a complete test suite and the time and resources to do complete testing, it is difficult to know for sure. Reports on successful test runs are welcomed.

Robert’s Original Notes

“I wrote this Ruby library because I wasn’t satisfied with the existing Ruby/GD extension library. Among other things, it had no support for creating images from PNG or JPEG data already in memory.

Ruby/GD2 is 100% Ruby and uses dl to link with the gd shared library. Most of the gd API is supported in some way, however the interface is quite different so that we can do things The Ruby Way as much as possible.

Most of the documentation for this library is now in RDoc form.“

Contributing

Patches, bug reports, pull requests, and all other good stuff can be performed via the project GitHub page at github.com/dark-panda/gd2-ffij .

License

See the COPYRIGHT file for details, but the gist of it is that this gem is covered under the terms of the GPL version 2 or above.