INTRODUCTION ============ RuBoids is a Boids simulation written in Ruby and using OpenGL and Qt. For information on Boids, see http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/. Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language by Yukihiro Matsumoto. The official Ruby Web site (http://www.ruby-lang.org/) contains information and pointers to resources for this wonderful language. RuBoids is developed and maintained by Jim Menard (). The latest version of RuBoids can be found on the Ruby Application Archive or on the official RuBoids Web page (http://www.io.com/~jimm/downloads/ruboids/). RUNNING ======= cd ruboids ruboids.rb RuBoids looks for an optional properties file. If none is specified on the command line, it looks for a file named 'boids.properties' in the current directory. For example, to load the example properties file in this directory: cd ruboids ruboids.rb ../boids.properties DEPENDENCIES ============ RuBoids retquires the OpenGL and Qt packages, which can be found on the Ruby Application Archive. COPYING ======= RuBoids is copyrighted free software by Jim Menard and is released under the same license as Ruby. See the Ruby license (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt). RuBoids may be freely copied in its entirety providing this notice, all source code, all documentation, and all other files are included. RuBoids is copyright (c) 2001 by Jim Menard. WARRANTY ======== THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.