From: Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>
Date: 2004-11-18T07:32:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby to C to another language (perhaps Java (I Don't Need JRuby))

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:42:19 +0900, Zach Dennis <zdennis@mktec.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had a similar approach (even if it wasn't Java) where they
> were able to wrap a few Objects and use C as the middle man to communicate?

Um, why not just use the networking layer of your system and use some
kind of remote procedure call to make your Java and Ruby programs
communicate? That strikes me as far simpler than the scheme that you
seem to be proposing. I don't know if there's a Java package that does
DRb or a Ruby package able to RMI/IIOP, but such a thing might work.
At last resort you may be able to use XML-RPC or even SOAP to get your
programs to do this, but IMHO such contrivances are an abuse of what
XML was designed to do.