From: vasudevram <vasudevram@...>
Date: 2006-07-14T15:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Good way to write a C extension to Ruby?


Thanks for the answers, all - very helpful!

>Maybe the OP could give us some more details about the nature of the
extension... wrapping a library? defining methods that work with ruby

Wrapping some simple C functions ... as a way to start learning how to
write Ruby C extensions. Was thinking to do this with my selpg.c
utility (
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/l-clutil/ -
see the Resources section at end of this URL) which is currently a
standalone C program; I plan to cut out the main function, just wrap
the core page-selecting logic in the process_input() function as a
Ruby/C extension. The process_args() function could be rewritten in
Ruby since all it does is argument checking.

Thanks
Vasudev Ram
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