HornetsEye is a Ruby real-time computer vision extension. It offers interfaces to do image- and video-I/O with ImageMagick/Magick++, Xine, firewire digital camera (DC1394), and video for linux (V4L).

For more information about HornetsEye have a look at the project homepage:
http://hornetseye.rubyforge.org/

The new release of HornetsEye allows you to display images under Microsoft Windows (GDIOutput). Furthermore a third method for displaying images under X11 was added (XImageOutput).

You can download the most recent release of HornetsEye at:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2714