From: Eric Merritt <cyberlync@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T06:20:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with a C extension

Ah! thank you so much!


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:39:47 +0900, Kristof Bastiaensen
<kristof@vleeuwen.org> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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