Rick DeNatale wrote:
> I've recently started playing with an Epilog laser cutter, and I find
> myself wanting to programmatically generate SVG files.
>
> I googled for ruby and svg this morning and although there seem to be
> a few old stagnant efforts, there's nothing too useful I could find.
>
> I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to start cooking something up using
> Jim Wierich's xml builder gem, but before I got started I wanted to
> see if there was anything I missed.
Topher Cyll's book, "Practical Ruby Projects; Ideas for the Eclectic 
Programmer", has a chapter that generates animations with SVG.
SVG is wrapped in an SVGObject class but it is only developed to the 
extent needed for the example project. It may give you a start.

See http://www.cyll.org/