From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-08-03T19:19:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Python; using python from within ruby

Norjee wrote:

>At the moment there are at least two libraries I need
>that are available to python but not to ruby (search engine, either
>xapian or lucene( python has bindings to both, ruby has neither), pydns
>and another custom python script)
>  
>
While someone mentioned Odeum, nobody replied to your second. Ruby stdlib:
require 'resolv'

Resolv.getaddress("www.ruby-lang.org") #=> "210.163.138.100"
Resolv.getname("210.163.138.100") #=> "beryllium.ruby-lang.org"


Devin