From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...>
Date: 2005-12-12T11:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedded Ruby into C

On 12/11/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone got any good resources on embedding C into Ruby?  The ones I
> found were a couple years old (i.e. for 1.6).

Chapter 21 in Programming Ruby, Second Edition covers it for Ruby 1.8.
I haven't tried it but it looks like a reasonably complete
explanation.

> What I'd like to do is be able to call Ruby functions from the C code
> (don't care about return value here), and be able to call C functions
> (and get the return data) from the Ruby code.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>


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