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I started playing around with Ruby, rubysdl and ruby-opengl tonight. I’m not really sure where the last 6 hours went…

In six hours I went from knowing almost no OpenGL, a basic understanding of Ruby, and absolutely nothing about SDL to having a full screen OpenGL app written in Ruby that shows the JPGs in the current directory in a coverlow-esque manner that you can flip through with the left and right arrow keys. I’m amazed. The whole thing is only like 200ish lines long, and I’ll attach it so if anyone finds it while looking up how to do OpenGL stuff in Ruby you can maybe benefit from my hours of digging through random documentation and websites. It’s really strange, but the only actual OpenGL/GLU documentation I could find was in PDF form…that’s nuts.

Sometime after I get some sleep I’ll try to write up some tutorials.

Edit: So, I can’t figure out how to attach things right now, I’ll get it up later.

Edit: Here’s a link to download: Source

Edit: Here’s a link to look at it online: Online Source