Plugins in Ruby?

[rickf325]

Before I go off and learn Perl, is there any (supported) way to write Plex Plugins in Ruby?

[jam]

The media server communicates with plug-ins over pipes, so it’s possible to write them in any language as long as they return valid XML. However, it’s a LOT easier to use Python (not Perl) than any other language at the moment, as the framework we’ve included will handle returning valid XML and provides a lot of other convenience functions to assist in the creation of plug-ins. We want to officially support other languages eventually, but at the moment our priority is getting the Python framework working perfectly. If you choose to use another language, you’re on your own at this point

[rickf325]

The media server communicates with plug-ins over pipes, so it’s possible to write them in any language as long as they return valid XML. However, it’s a LOT easier to use Python (not Perl) than any other language at the moment, as the framework we’ve included will handle returning valid XML and provides a lot of other convenience functions to assist in the creation of plug-ins. We want to officially support other languages eventually, but at the moment our priority is getting the Python framework working perfectly. If you choose to use another language, you’re on your own at this point

Thanks. I mistyped earlier. s/Perl/Python/g

I'm going to take a gander at the Python convenience functions and either learn enough to use them or learn enough to do a quick-and-dirty Ruby port.

Thanks again.

[haedjin]

Is there any documentation available on what these framework calls look like? I’d be more than happy to port the Pythons to the Rubies.