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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+## [1.0.0] - 2026-11-03
+
+### Added
+
+- `GstPlay`, defined from the `GstPlay-1.0` GObject Introspection typelib at
+  require time, giving a high-level playback pipeline, which is what a media player wants rather than assembling elements by hand. `GstPlay::Loader` is a
+  `GObjectIntrospection::Loader` subclass, so the binding is the whole
+  namespace rather than a hand-written subset, and it does not drift as the
+  library gains API.
+- A dev shell (`flake.nix`) that pins the library and glib from one nixpkgs and
+  puts their typelibs on `GI_TYPELIB_PATH`, and CI that runs the suite inside
+  it, because the environment is the hard part of an introspection binding.
+
+### Changed
+
+- The binding no longer goes through Rust. Earlier revisions wrapped a
+  gir-generated crate with magnus, which meant an `ext/` directory, a Cargo
+  workspace, system libraries at build time and a nine-platform cross-compile
+  matrix, to expose the handful of functions someone had written by hand. The
+  typelib loader replaces all of it with about twenty lines of Ruby.
+- The gem is pure Ruby and declares no extensions. Installing it still
+  compiles C, because `glib2` and `gobject-introspection` are native
+  extensions built against glib — but this gem adds no build step of its own,
+  and those two are what every ruby-gnome application already has via `gtk4`.
+- `bin/release-gem` releases one gem. It was built for the Rust model, where a
+  release meant a source gem plus one precompiled gem per platform downloaded
+  from the Cross Compile workflow; that workflow is gone and there are no
+  platform gems, so left alone it aborted before doing anything.
+
+### Removed
+
+- `ext/`, `Cargo.toml`, `Cargo.lock`, the cross-compile workflow, and the
+  `rb_sys` and `rake-compiler` dependencies.
+- `bin/release-gem`. It existed because releasing a Rust gem meant publishing a
+  source gem plus one precompiled gem per platform, downloaded from the Cross
+  Compile workflow's artifacts. There is nothing to compile here, so there is
+  one gem and one push, which is exactly what `gem kit release` does. The
+  script added only a check that the local version was ahead of RubyGems, and
+  `gem push` already refuses a version that has been pushed.

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+GstPlay for Ruby
+Copyright 2026 General Intelligence Systems
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+This product includes software developed by the GStreamer project.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+GStreamer
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This gem is a binding, not an implementation. It contains no GStreamer code:
+GObjectIntrospection::Loader reads GstPlay-1.0.typelib -- a machine-readable
+description of the library, installed by gst-plugins-bad -- at require time and
+defines Ruby classes from it. Nothing is linked, vendored, bundled or
+redistributed here, and nothing in this repository is derived from GStreamer's
+source.
+
+GStreamer and its plugin modules are licensed LGPL-2.1-or-later. The gem reads
+whatever copy the system already has.
+
+  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer
+  Copyright 1999-2026 the GStreamer contributors
+  Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ruby-gnome
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The loader follows ruby-gnome's own, and the gem depends on its
+gobject-introspection and glib2 gems, which are not redistributed here.
+
+  https://github.com/ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome
+  Copyright 2002-2026 the Ruby-GNOME Project Team
+  Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later

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+# gstreamer_play
+
+Ruby bindings for [GstPlay](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/play/index.html),
+GStreamer's high-level playback library.
+
+```ruby
+require "gstreamer_play"
+
+play = GstPlay::Play.new
+play.uri = "file:///music/track.opus"
+play.volume = 0.8
+play.play
+
+main_loop = GLib::MainLoop.new
+
+# Everything it does, it reports. GstPlay::PlaySignalAdapter turns that into
+# GObject signals on a main context of your choosing -- the application's, if
+# you have one.
+adapter = GstPlay::PlaySignalAdapter.new(play)
+adapter.signal_connect("state-changed") { |_adapter, state| puts state }
+adapter.signal_connect("position-updated") { |_adapter, position| puts position }
+adapter.signal_connect("end-of-stream") { main_loop.quit }
+
+main_loop.run
+```
+
+Give `GstPlay::Play` a URI and it builds and drives a `playbin3` underneath, on
+its own GLib main context and its own thread. Nothing above needs an event loop
+of its own for playback to run — the main loop there is only so that the
+process stays alive to hear the signals, and in a GTK application you already
+have one.
+
+The other way to read what it is doing is `play.message_bus`, which carries
+`GstPlay::PlayMessage`s. Pulling them off that bus means calling `Gst::Bus`
+methods, which belong to the `gstreamer` gem rather than to this one — with
+just this gem, use the signal adapter.
+
+## How this works, and why there is nothing here to compile
+
+gst-plugins-bad ships a GObject Introspection typelib that describes every
+class, method, property and signal GstPlay has. `GstPlay::Loader` hands that
+typelib to ruby-gnome's `GObjectIntrospection::Loader`, which defines the Ruby
+classes from it at `require` time.
+
+So this gem is pure Ruby: no extension of its own, no Cargo workspace, no
+per-platform binary. You get the whole library rather than the subset somebody
+got round to wrapping by hand, and it does not drift when GstPlay gains API.
+
+It is worth being precise about what that does and does not buy you at install
+time. `gem install gstreamer_play` still compiles C, because
+`gobject-introspection` and `glib2` are themselves native extensions built
+against glib — so a compiler and glib's development headers are needed. What
+this gem adds on top of that is nothing: those two are what every ruby-gnome
+application already has, since `gtk4` depends on them. If you are writing a
+Ruby GTK app, gstreamer_play costs you no build step you were not already
+paying.
+
+Note also what is *not* a dependency: the `gstreamer` gem. GStreamer has to be
+initialised before GstPlay's types exist, and the loader does that by calling
+`gst_init_check` through the typelib — so this gem does not pull in that gem's
+compiled extension to make one call. If your application wants the `Gst`
+namespace in Ruby as well, add the `gstreamer` gem for it; the two coexist.
+
+This is how [ruby-gnome](https://github.com/ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome) itself ships
+gtksourceview5, libsecret and the rest.
+
+## What you must install
+
+The typelib and the plugins are C-library artefacts, so they belong to your
+distribution and this gem cannot install them. GstPlay is in
+**gst-plugins-bad**, not in GStreamer core:
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| Debian / Ubuntu | `gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad`, plus `gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0` for the typelib and `gstreamer1.0-plugins-base` and `-good` for `playbin3` and its decoders |
+| Fedora | `gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free`, `gstreamer1-plugins-base`, `gstreamer1-plugins-good` |
+| Arch | `gst-plugins-bad`, `gst-plugins-base`, `gst-plugins-good` |
+| nix | `pkgs.gst_all_1.gst-plugins-bad`, `pkgs.gst_all_1.gst-plugins-base`, `pkgs.gst_all_1.gst-plugins-good`, `pkgs.gst_all_1.gstreamer` |
+
+If the typelibs are not in the default search path, point `GI_TYPELIB_PATH` at
+the directory holding `GstPlay-1.0.typelib` — and at the ones holding the
+typelibs it depends on: `Gst-1.0`, `GstBase-1.0` (GStreamer core),
+`GstVideo-1.0`, `GstAudio-1.0`, `GstTag-1.0` and `GstPbutils-1.0`
+(gst-plugins-base). The dev shell in `flake.nix` does all of this.
+
+**The plugins are not optional.** `GstPlay::Play.new` constructs a `playbin3`,
+and GstPlay treats a missing `playbin3` as a fatal error that aborts the
+process rather than something it can report. If GStreamer cannot find its
+plugins, set `GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0`.
+
+**One trap worth knowing.** The typelibs must come from the same glib build as
+the `gobject-introspection` gem. Mixing two registers GIO twice in one process
+and fails with `cannot register existing type 'GTlsCertificate'`. Under nix,
+take both from one nixpkgs — and note that glib's and gstreamer's typelibs are
+in their `out` output, not the default `bin` one.
+
+## Using it from a flake
+
+The gem needs `GstPlay-1.0.typelib` and everything that typelib declares,
+resolved transitively by the loader at `require` time — six GStreamer
+namespaces (Gst, GstBase, GstVideo, GstAudio, GstTag, GstPbutils) and
+GLib/GObject/Gio under those. A missing one surfaces as
+`Typelib file for namespace 'X' not found`, one at a time, so the whole chain
+is listed here rather than discovered by repeated failure:
+
+- `pkgs.gst_all_1.gst-plugins-bad` — `GstPlay-1.0` itself, plus `GstBadAudio-1.0`
+- `pkgs.gst_all_1.gst-plugins-base` — `GstPbutils`, `GstVideo`, `GstAudio`, `GstTag`
+- `pkgs.gst_all_1.gstreamer` — `Gst-1.0` and `GstBase-1.0`, and the `gst_init`
+  this namespace cannot load without
+- `pkgs.gst_all_1.gst-plugins-good` — no typelib; it carries plugins (see below)
+- `pkgs.glib` — `GLib-2.0`, `GObject-2.0` and `Gio-2.0`
+
+Note the `.out`: a package's default output is often `bin`, which carries no
+typelibs — true of both glib and gstreamer here. `makeSearchPath` takes the
+first output, so it has to be asked for `out` explicitly. This is the single
+most common way to get a search path that looks right and finds nothing.
+
+`GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0` is the second thing, and it is not optional for
+this namespace: `GstPlay::Play.new` builds a `playbin3`, and GstPlay treats a
+missing `playbin3` as a fatal `g_error` rather than as something it can report.
+A shell with the typelibs but no plugins aborts instead of raising.
+
+```nix
+{
+  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
+
+  outputs = { nixpkgs, ... }:
+    let
+      system = "x86_64-linux";
+      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
+
+      gstPackages = with pkgs.gst_all_1; [
+        gst-plugins-bad
+        gst-plugins-base
+        gstreamer
+        gst-plugins-good
+      ];
+
+      typelibPath = pkgs.lib.makeSearchPath "lib/girepository-1.0"
+        (map (drv: drv.out or drv) (gstPackages ++ [ pkgs.glib ]));
+
+      pluginPath = pkgs.lib.makeSearchPath "lib/gstreamer-1.0" gstPackages;
+    in
+    {
+      devShells.${system}.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+        packages = [ pkgs.ruby_3_4 pkgs.bundler ] ++ gstPackages;
+
+        shellHook = ''
+          export GI_TYPELIB_PATH="${typelibPath}''${GI_TYPELIB_PATH:+:$GI_TYPELIB_PATH}"
+          export GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0="${pluginPath}"
+        '';
+      };
+    };
+}
+```
+
+Everything must come from **one** nixpkgs. A typelib built against a different
+glib than the `gobject-introspection` gem registers GIO twice in the process
+and fails with `cannot register existing type 'GTlsCertificate'`.
+
+## Development
+
+```sh
+nix develop
+bin/test
+```
+
+## Releasing
+
+```sh
+gem kit release
+```
+
+That is the whole thing. It gates on the changelog having an entry for this
+version, on no deprecation deadline coming due, and on a clean working tree;
+then builds, pushes and tags.
+
+There is nothing to wait for in CI. This gem is pure Ruby, so `gem build`
+produces one `gstreamer_play-X.Y.Z.gem` that is the same artefact wherever it is built —
+no extension, no per-platform gems, nothing for a workflow to hand back.
+
+
+## Licence
+
+Apache-2.0. GStreamer itself is LGPL-2.1-or-later; this gem links nothing and
+copies no GStreamer code — it reads a description of it at runtime.

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+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+# Released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+# Copyright, 2026, by General Intelligence Systems.
+
+module GstPlay
+  # Defines everything in the GstPlay namespace from gst-plugins-bad's typelib.
+  #
+  # Modelled on ruby-gnome's own loaders (see gtksourceview5/lib/gtksourceview5/loader.rb,
+  # which also has an init function to call, and gstreamer/lib/gst/loader.rb,
+  # which is where the `gst_init_check` call below comes from).
+  #
+  # The version string is the typelib's, not the library's: GStreamer 1.28
+  # ships `GstPlay-1.0.typelib`, so the version here is "1.0".
+  class Loader < GObjectIntrospection::Loader
+    def load
+      self.version = "1.0"
+      super("GstPlay")
+    end
+
+    private
+
+    # GStreamer must be initialised before the GstPlay namespace is read.
+    #
+    # This is not a nicety. `gst_init` is what registers GStreamer's GTypes,
+    # and the loader walks the typelib asking GObject about each one as it
+    # goes. Without it, loading GstPlaySignalAdapter dies in GLib with
+    #
+    #   gsignal.c: parameter 2 of type '<invalid>' for signal
+    #   "GstPlaySignalAdapter::error" is not a value type
+    #
+    # and what you are left with is a namespace that looks loaded -- the
+    # constants are all there -- and then misbehaves. GtkSource has the same
+    # shape of problem and ruby-gnome solves it the same way, in `pre_load`.
+    def pre_load(repository, namespace)
+      initialize_gstreamer(repository)
+    end
+
+    # `gst_init_check` rather than `gst_init`, because `gst_init` aborts the
+    # process on failure and this returns the GError instead. argv is passed
+    # and read back the way ruby-gnome's own Gst::Loader does it: GStreamer
+    # consumes its own `--gst-*` options out of it.
+    #
+    # Done through the repository rather than through a Ruby `Gst` module on
+    # purpose. This gem defines one namespace, GstPlay, and depends only on
+    # `gobject-introspection`; initialising the C library does not need the
+    # `gstreamer` gem's compiled extension, and taking a dependency on it to
+    # make one call would make this gem's install a GStreamer build too.
+    # `gst_init_check` is idempotent, so an application that also uses the
+    # `gstreamer` gem can call `Gst.init` whenever it likes.
+    def initialize_gstreamer(repository)
+      repository.require("Gst", "1.0")
+
+      succeeded, _argv, error = repository.find("Gst", "init_check").invoke([[$0]])
+      raise error unless succeeded
+    end
+
+    def post_load(repository, namespace)
+      require_libraries
+    end
+
+    def require_libraries
+      # Nothing yet. Hand-written Ruby that improves on what the typelib gives
+      # -- an each that yields, a to_s, a keyword-argument constructor -- goes
+      # in files required from here, which is the convention ruby-gnome uses
+      # for exactly that purpose.
+    end
+  end
+end

data/lib/gstreamer_play/version.rb

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+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+# Released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+# Copyright, 2026, by General Intelligence Systems.
+
+module GstreamerPlay
+  VERSION = "1.0.0"
+end

data/lib/gstreamer_play/version.rb.erb

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+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+# Released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+# Copyright, 2026, by General Intelligence Systems.
+
+module GstreamerPlay
+  VERSION = "<%= version %>"
+end

data/lib/gstreamer_play.rb

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+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+# Released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+# Copyright, 2026, by General Intelligence Systems.
+
+require "gobject-introspection"
+
+require_relative "gstreamer_play/version"
+require_relative "gstreamer_play/loader"
+
+# Ruby bindings for GstPlay, GStreamer's high-level playback library.
+#
+# There is no compiled extension here and nothing in this gem wraps a GstPlay
+# function by hand. gst-plugins-bad ships a GObject Introspection typelib
+# describing every class, method, property and signal GstPlay has, and
+# ruby-gnome's GObjectIntrospection::Loader reads that at require time and
+# defines the Ruby classes from it. {GstPlay::Loader} is a few dozen lines;
+# what you get is the whole library, and it does not drift when GstPlay gains
+# a method.
+#
+# This is how ruby-gnome itself ships gtksourceview5, adwaita and the rest.
+#
+# {Play} is the playback object: give it a URI, call `play`, and it builds and
+# drives a `playbin3` underneath, on its own main context and its own thread.
+# It reports state, position, errors and discovered media as {PlayMessage}s on
+# a bus, and {PlaySignalAdapter} turns those into GObject signals -- so it
+# needs no event loop of yours to run, in a GTK application or out of one.
+#
+#   require "gstreamer_play"
+#
+#   play = GstPlay::Play.new
+#   play.uri = "file:///music/track.opus"
+#   play.play
+#
+# GStreamer has to be initialised before any of these types exist, which the
+# loader does in `pre_load` -- see the comment there for why that is not
+# optional, and why it does not require the `gstreamer` gem to do it.
+#
+# The typelib has to be findable at require time, which means gst-plugins-bad's
+# `girepository-1.0` directory on `GI_TYPELIB_PATH` (or in the system default),
+# along with the ones GstPlay-1.0.typelib names as dependencies: Gst, GstBase,
+# GstVideo, GstAudio, GstTag and GstPbutils. This gem cannot install them: they
+# are C libraries, so they belong to the distribution. See the README for the
+# package names. The dev shell in `flake.nix` wires it all up.
+#
+# One trap, paid for already: the typelib must come from the same glib build as
+# the `gobject-introspection` gem. Mix two and GIO gets registered twice in one
+# process, which fails as `cannot register existing type 'GTlsCertificate'`.
+module GstPlay
+  LOG_DOMAIN = "GstPlay"
+  GLib::Log.set_log_domain(LOG_DOMAIN)
+
+  class Error < StandardError
+  end
+
+  loader = Loader.new(self)
+  loader.load
+end

metadata

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+--- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
+name: gstreamer_play
+version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+  version: 1.0.0
+platform: ruby
+authors:
+- Nathan Kidd
+bindir: bin
+cert_chain: []
+date: 1980-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 Z
+dependencies:
+- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
+  name: gem_kit
+  requirement: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+    requirements:
+    - - "~>"
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+        version: '0.2'
+  type: :runtime
+  prerelease: false
+  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+    requirements:
+    - - "~>"
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+        version: '0.2'
+- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
+  name: gobject-introspection
+  requirement: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+    requirements:
+    - - "~>"
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+        version: '4.3'
+  type: :runtime
+  prerelease: false
+  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+    requirements:
+    - - "~>"
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+        version: '4.3'
+- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
+  name: lefthook
+  requirement: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+    requirements:
+    - - "~>"
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+        version: '2.2'
+  type: :development
+  prerelease: false
+  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+    requirements:
+    - - "~>"
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+        version: '2.2'
+description: 'GstPlay for Ruby, defined from its GObject Introspection typelib at
+  require time rather than wrapped by hand. A URI in, playback out: GstPlay builds
+  and drives the pipeline itself, runs its own main context, and reports state, position,
+  errors and discovered media as signals and bus messages -- so it needs no event
+  loop of yours to run, in a GTK application or out of one. Pure Ruby: there is no
+  extension to compile, and the binding does not drift as GstPlay gains API.'
+email:
+- nathankidd@hey.com
+executables: []
+extensions: []
+extra_rdoc_files: []
+files:
+- CHANGELOG.md
+- LICENSE
+- NOTICE
+- README.md
+- lib/gstreamer_play.rb
+- lib/gstreamer_play/loader.rb
+- lib/gstreamer_play/version.rb
+- lib/gstreamer_play/version.rb.erb
+homepage: https://github.com/n-at-han-k/gstreamer-play-rb
+licenses:
+- Apache-2.0
+metadata:
+  source_code_uri: https://github.com/n-at-han-k/gstreamer-play-rb
+  documentation_uri: https://n-at-han-k.github.io/gstreamer-play-rb/
+rdoc_options: []
+require_paths:
+- lib
+required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  requirements:
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+      version: '3.3'
+required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  requirements:
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+      version: '0'
+requirements: []
+rubygems_version: 3.7.2
+specification_version: 4
+summary: Ruby bindings for GstPlay, GStreamer's high-level playback library.
+test_files: []