From: "Kroeger, Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>
Date: 2006-02-08T21:39:54+09:00
Subject: Re: c api, getting class

 
 
> Hello Florian,
> 
> > On 2006-02-08 20:43:21 +0900, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> >> This does not work. I have no idea how to proceed. Some small hints
> >> would probably enough to point me in the right direction. 
> I have seen
> >> (pickaxe) that I can define the class in the c part with
> >> rb_define_class(), but I want to reuse the class that is already
> >> defined on the ruby side.
> >
> > Use rb_path2class("Myclass::UnknownFormat").
> 
> This is exactly what I was looking for; seems somewhat undocumented.

Without having a chance of testing right now, I would say
rb_define_class 
is just perfect. (Re)opening a class in ruby is legal and should work
from
c also.

cheers

Simon