From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T04:39:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with a C extension

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:01:31 +0900, Eric Merritt wrote:
>> Get a handle to the String class and use rb_define_method
> 
>  Thats the question, how do you get a handle to an existing class. I
> see plenty of documentation on how to create a class, but not how to get a
> handle on an existing class.
> 

The VALUE for String is rb_cString, and is defined in ruby.h.
If it wasn't there you could always get the class through Object:

rb_const_get(rb_cObject, rb_intern("String"));

Regards,
Kristof