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Gosu is a 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages, available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It has been in development since 2001. The C++ version is also available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
Visual C++ 2008 (recommended) or 2010 required for the Windows C++ version, but the free Express versions are fine.

Both languages have access to:

2D graphics and text, accelerated by 3D hardware
Sound samples and music in various formats
Keyboard, mouse and gamepad input

Ruby/Gosu integrates well:

gem install gosu
complete with examples, precompiled for Windows & OS X
gem install texplay
pixel-based drawing on Gosu images, by banister
gem install chingu
a library that adds more game logic, by ippa
gem install ruby-opengl
the standard Ruby OpenGL gem works fine with Gosu to add 3D effects
(See the included example, or this fine bundle of tutorials by tjbladez. Also note this thread if you have problems installing on Windows)
gem install chipmunk
a popular physics library with an integration example in the wiki
gem install rmagick
can be used as a more powerful but harder-to-distribute alternative to TexPlay, example included in Gosu

Licensing

Gosu is released under the MIT license.