From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...>
Date: 2005-12-12T12:10:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedded Ruby into C

On 12/11/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
> >
> > 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.
>
> I created a Ruby extension in C called 'functions.so'.  My ruby script
> is require'ing it.
>
> When I launch the Ruby script via ruby_run() in C, I get 'no such file
> to load -- functions' error.

The source code from the book is here:
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/code/index.html
The examples from "Extending Ruby" may help.


>
> Any ideas?
>
>


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