From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T16:46:00+09:00
Subject: Re: A method for summing several variables


"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@aracnet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:cfrg4e0283g@enews1.newsguy.com...
> In article <412134AF.1060900@path.berkeley.edu>,
> Joel VanderWerf  <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> >Phil Tomson wrote:
> >..
> >> Here's a crazy idea:
> >> You can't do an 'eval' with $SAFE set to 3, but you could instead of
> >> generating Ruby code, you could generate C code and use something like
> >> RubyInline or Cgenerator (see: http://redshift.sourceforge.net/cgen/ ).
> >> Either one of those can take C code and generate a shared lib (dll)
that
> >> can then be called from Ruby.
> >
> >That's no better than generating ruby code. $SAFE=3 won't let you create
> >or load a shared lib.
> >
> >
>
> Ooops... I suppose that makes sense.
>
> So basically, you can't use extensions when you're in $SAFE=3

Not exactly: as long as you load them before switching $SAFE or from another
thread it should work.

    robert