gnustep What is RIGS ? ============== RIGS stands for Ruby Interface for GNUstep. It is a package allowing integration between Ruby and Objective-C/GNUstep. The main purpose of RIGS is to allow the use the GNUstep development environment from Ruby. One of the most interesting feature of RIGS is that it is 100% dynamic. It means that RIGS maps Ruby object/methods to GNUstep and vice/versa entirely on the fly when running the Ruby script. As a consequence there is no need to generate any kind of wrapping code to use either existing GNUstep classes or even new ones that you have developped by yourself. Simply compile your new classes in a shared library and then do a simple: require('MyNewClass') # load your extra ObjC shared library Rigs.import("MyNewClass") # dynamically import the class in Ruby and you are in business! Cool, hey. RIGS allows you to write optimized classes and components in Objective-C, and make them available to Ruby developers. Ruby is a great OO programming language and it is real fun to write GNUstep applications directly from Ruby. By the way GNUstep users who don't known Ruby can learn more at http://www.ruby-lang.org. And Ruby users that don't know about GNUstep can go to http://www.gnustep.org. In both cases, it's definitely worth a visit. RIGS is free software and part of the GNU/GNUstep project, freely available from the Free Software Foundation under the GNU LGPL license. (Some sample Ruby scripts are under GPL)