From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-12-28T19:51:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Bare-bones Ruby


"Jeffrey Moss" <jeff@opendbms.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:002301c4ec46$14eb0930$2c02a8c0@hans...
> There is an informative section on the Programming Ruby online book:
>
> http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_ruby.html

For easier reference and less scrolling: "Embedding a Ruby Interpreter" is
located here:
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_ruby.html#S6

Kind regards

    robert


>
> Should be a good introduction to embedding the interpreter in your C
> program. It appears to do everything you're looking for.
>
> Not clear what you mean by "modules", most modules dont have to be
built, so
> if you dont want them just delete the "lib" directory.
>
> -Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Leiradella, Andre V Matos Da Cunha"
<ANDRE.LEIRADELLA@bra.xerox.com>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 11:33 AM
> Subject: Bare-bones Ruby
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This is my first submission to the ruby-talk list. I've been using Lua
> > (http://www.lua.org) for some years now for some pet projects, which
> > include
> > FullMoon (http://www.geocities.com/andre_leiradella/#fullmoon), a
plugin
> > for
> > the 3D modeler Moray that enables the authoring of other plugins in
Lua.
> > Plugins in FullMoon probably exist in higher number than those written
in
> > C/C++.
> >
> > I've been fighting with Lua to make it look like the object plugins
are
> > classes because Lua is not OO. Using a facility called metamethods,
one
> > can
> > create an OO-like environment, but some things get just too confused
to
> > use
> > like static class properties and calling inherited methods. I want OO
> > because I want to enable plugin writers to extend other objects with
ease
> > and because I want to create a GUI for the plugins.
> >
> > I've been looking for a script language that could be used in Lua's
place
> > for FullMoon and I found Ruby. I downloaded it (3.4MB!) and I saw that
it
> > comes with a great set of modules. So my first questions to the list
are:
> >
> > 1) Is it possible to build Ruby without those modules? How?
> > 2) How do I embed Ruby in a host program?
> > 3) What are the functions that must be called to make Ruby load a
program,
> > to create an instance of a class defined in Ruby, to call methods with
> > this
> > instance etc.? Is this API documented somewhere?
> > 4) Does Ruby support multiple inheritance or something similar to
Java's
> > interfaces?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Andre de Leiradella
> >
>
>
>