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I love LaTeX. Seriously, it is the most amazing piece of software to ever be created. But, despite its Turing completeness, it's just not built for dynamic programming. Sure, there's LuaLaTeX, but no one really uses Lua, and the Lua standard libraries are very lacking in power. This project is dedicated to bringing the power of Ruby to LaTeX.

The actually processor, rblatex, only works on UNIX based systems with /usr/bin/env and an up to date Ruby distribution. To run it, simply create a .tex document with some stuff in it, and run rblatex mydoc.tex. Here is a minimal working example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rubylatex}

\begin{document}
\noindent Here, have some \LaTeX\\
\begin{rbtex}
Tex.print "Here, have some #{Tex.logo}"
\end{rbtex}
\end{document}

If you try to compile this with pdflatex, it will fail spectacularly.

The documentation for this project is hosted at this place.