Another day, another Go Client - RubyGo

Question

Encouraged by my success with building, installing & packaging the glGo program earlier* last week, I wanted to try to build a pkgbuild myself to see if I can.  However I have run into a few snags & I could use the experience of those more knowledgeable than I to nail down some details before I proceed.
Firstly, it seems that RubyGo's dependencies are fairly standard for ruby-based apps.  However when i ran across the instructions on how to build it from source, I was a bit apprehensive on whether to use their instructions verbatim (just to see if it is easy to install/compile) or not.  Here is the relevant section of their website & the URL -
You need the packages tcl, tk, tcl-dev installed on your system. (i.e. files libtclxx.so, libtkxx.so and tcl.h) Get the tarball at: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz or see the page: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/download.html and type (as root):
# tar xvzf stable-snapshot.tar.gz
# cd ruby
# ./configure
# make
# make test
# make install (this will install ruby under /usr/local)
Source url:  http://rubygo.rubyforge.org/
My question is:  Do I follow the instructions & download the ruby tarball to get the correct libs & other bits?  Or do I rely on pacman to find the correct files?  I chose to do the latter but I ran into a problem there, in that I cannot seem to find any package named "ruby-tk" in any repo through yaourt or pacman.  I did a lot of searching in AUR too & for the life of me I cannot find any application that provides this (seemingly) obscure file.  What am I doing wrong?
Secondly, I did try to install from the binary tarball they give at the top of the page.  However when I go to run the application, I get these errors:
ruby /usr/local/games/RubyGo/lib/go.rb
RubyGo path is /usr/local/games/RubyGo/lib
using artsd (KDE)
user files in /home/adriana/.rubygo
user defaults not found
user entries not found
user GUI not found
alloc: invalid block: 0x8541310: ef ef 30
Aborted
I realise this is likely due to missing files of some sort (ruby-tk being one of the said missing deps I'm sure) but I wondered if someone might glean a bit more information from this error message than what I am able to puzzle out.  Is there something else amiss?
Thank you in advance to any who reply.
MS
* I did not build glGo alone, I had extensive help from jacko & sigi, for which I am very grateful.  I still cannot seem to make a menu entry for it properly with the pkgbuild nor upload it and I don't know why.  However that is for the original glGo thread,  I wished only to acknowledge those people who should be accredited for the aid they provided to this arch-newbie. 
Last edited by MoonSwan (2008-05-01 08:48:03)

Answer 1

Interesting application.  Thank you very much adlucem, I will definitely look at this application and see what it can do.  I've been looking for a decent Go app that runs under linux and also has tutorial/teaching capabilities built-in.  The only such app I have found until now is Many Faces of Go, a purely windows client, that does work with Wine (or so I am led to believe).  I'd rather run something platform agnostic or specifically made for the linux environment.