From: Eric Peden <eric@...>
Date: 2005-03-01T00:44:00+09:00
Subject: Re: structuring complexly-interdependent C/Ruby libraries

On Feb 28, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Michael Neumann wrote:
> You might take a look at RubyInline:
>
>   http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinline/
>
> It will allow you to put the C code right into your Ruby classes.

I have looked at RubyInline (and in fact use it in a couple of places 
in my code). It works great for shorter methods. However, for longer 
methods, or classes where I C-ify several methods, I prefer breaking 
the code out in a .c file. This makes my text editor happy, and lets me 
work with C-specific syntax highlighting and autocompletion features.

There are also a few times where I want to work directly with the C 
representation of another optimized class, and I had trouble doing this 
with Inline. This was early on in my explorations, so it's likely I was 
just doing things the wrong way.

Thanks for the suggestion!

-- 
eric