From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-11-18T02:05:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby to C to another language (perhaps Java  (I Don't Need JRuby))

Florian Gross wrote:

> Zach Dennis wrote:
> 
>> This posting is more for a learning thing then anything else at this 
>> point. I've been playing with Java to C via JNI lately doing some 
>> pretty basic tests; calling methods, getting and settings fields, 
>> passing primitive types around, etc...
>>
>> A while back (a few months ago) I did some Ruby to C tests of pretty 
>> much the same caliber.
>>
>> I would like to combine the two approaches and share some objects 
>> between Ruby to C to Java and vise versa. I am not looking for the JVM 
>> to be able to process ruby code. (no JRuby)
> 
> 
> There's work being done on the Ruby -> C part. See 
> http://zenspider.com/~ryand/Ruby2C.pdf
> 

Thanks for the link, I will look into this.

> That aside maybe SWIG can be useful for you?

I don't know a lot about SWIG, I'll give it a look. Thanks for replying,

Zach