Ruby bindings for cairo are available in the cairo CVS, module rcairo.

Install: RubyGems

For RubyGems users.

% sudo gem install cairo

Install: tar.gz

For non-RubyGems users.

The latest version is rcairo-1.8.1

% wget http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-X.X.X.tar.gz
% tar xvzf rcairo-X.X.X.tar.gz
% cd rcairo-X.X.X
% ruby extconf.rb
% make
% sudo make install

Documentation

API Reference

CVS

Anonymous access:

% cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.cairographics.org:/cvs/cairo co rcairo

For developers:

% cvs -d:ext:USERNAME@cvs.cairographics.org:/cvs/cairo co rcairo

Features

PNG saving
PostScript saving
PDF saving
SVG saving
Win32 support
Quartz support
all cairo API

TODO

Documentation in English (there is full documentation in Japanese)
Format engine (table, chart, ...)
QR code module

Dependencies (cairo binding)

cairo, cairo development files
ruby, ruby header development files