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 Ruby-extension in this release links the required libraries in a different order and the crash on distributions with SELinux does not occur any more. Furthermore the Windows installer does not use rubygems any more.

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