From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-11-16T08:18:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby extension best practices

In article <270bd0c404111421035a5d83e0@mail.gmail.com>,
leon breedt  <bitserf@gmail.com> wrote:
>hi,
>
>i am about to create an extension for a third party API (API is pretty
>consistent), was wondering what the best practices are.
>
>are there tools for generating the glue for methods on classes i
>create to wrap the various abstractions?
>
>is there something like Pyrex for Ruby? (google didn't really come up
>with anything conclusive).
>

How about RubyInline?
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinline/

>what is the most "modern" way of creating extensions without making
>too much work for myself such that it is difficult to maintain?
>
>when is it a good idea to use Ruby/DL and when not?

If your 3rd party shared library is written in C and not C++, Ruby/DL might be 
the way to go since, as you say the library is well documented.

Phil