Btw I just found out that rubygfe 0.3.x _is_ installing ucl files ;).

rubyzip:
The way rubyzip was included before 0.3 might result in a license conflict but I’m not sure how well ruby’s license and gpl work together. I use rubyzip-0.5.12 right now and it works fine api hasn’t changed at all only bug fixes. So keeping rubyzip seperately is the way to go imo. I have to look into 0.9 and check if the api has changed and if so I need to think of something. On gentoo the new rubyzip is not stable and not even testing yet.

gems:
I think that I will just modify the bash launcher and exclude the rubygem stuff… if you install rubyzip using rubygems you just have to tell ruby to use it (RUBYOPT=’rubygems’ /usr/bin/rubygfe).
I already tested rubygfe on windows (http://fox.gentoo-clan.org/files/gfe/rubygfe-win2.jpg) some time ago. 0.3.2 should work the same although There already is a better GFE tool for win from Brian Hearn (http://brian.gentoo-clan.org/gfe/). Need .net though afaik.

Oh and btw rubygfe always only looks for the folders in the directory you specified in “Game Path”. I suggest you set it to ~/.ut2004 that way you have a clean ut install in /home/user/ut2004 and a user specific dir with additional maps,files etc in ~/.ut2004

So thanks again (didn’t even notice the rubyzip 0.9 version!)
and would be cool if you can get me some win screenshots of rubygfe 0.3.x in win :).
The rubygem stuff shouldn’t be a problem since you can’t use bash scripts in windows anyway you have to launch the RubyGFE.rb by double clicking it. And RubyGFE doesn’t use any gem related code or library includes.

You can also email me insead if commenting here. My email is in the README (at the end).

#EDIT: I checked rubyzip 0.9 the api hasn’t changed it works just fine and is a lot faster!

no but when I recorded my first demo the game put in ~/.ut2004 rubygfe looks for it in ~/ut2004 where the game didn’t put it. version .2.1 didn’t care about demos AFAIK and thus worked without anyworkaround.

So I guess consider this a bug for now .

I would “link” statically as in include .5.6 with your archive because that way future upgrader (right now rubyzip is in .9) won’t break you prog and gems wouldn’t be required.

also I managed to run your prog on windows with rubywin for a linux challenged friend of mine, ran flawlessly, this version might not bc of the gem issue

Otherwise ruby won’t see my rubyzip install for some reason… So I guess consider this a bug for now ;).

But I don’t get what was wrong :p.
Your configuration for the game folder was /home/user/.ut2004
But rubygfe was looking in /home/user/ut2004?
I changed the config files names around the 2.x -> 3.x step so maybe you forgot to reset all your settings?

Thanks for the feedback!

“System” are in both ~/.2004 for user config while ~/ut2004 contains game installed files and mods, while “Demos” is only in ~/.ut2004

“Animations”, “KarmaData”, “Maps”, “Music”,
“Sounds”, “StaticMeshes”,
“System”, “Textures”, are in the ~/ut2004 folder

back in version .2.1 it worked fine I just had to add the UCL extraction code after reading your comment within your code stating you didn’t know where they went (found out from a few readme files within some mods that wouldn’t work without their UCL files)

also your prog wouldn’t run until after I installed ruby GEMS so you might wanna list that as a requirement as well

BTW: *.ucl files go into the /home/user/.ut2004/system some mods won’t work unless these files are copied. I had made the addition to the ruby code but I could find the official site for this prog thus I didn’t know what to do with it but just use myself

“Animations”, “KarmaData”, “Maps”, “Music”,
“Sounds”, “StaticMeshes”,
“System”, “Textures”, “Demos”

The folders RubyGFE checks are defined in RubyGFE/ut-plugin/whitelist-ut.xml.
All path=”Directory” directories have to exist.

hth and wow somebody is reading this!