From: domingo@... (Domingo Alvarez Duarte)
Date: 2001-08-24T19:11:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20269] how to "eval" mini ruby ?

I'm doing a web application and I want provide a "mini ruby" interpreter for users.

What a "mini ruby" mean ?

By "mini ruby" I mean a basic ruby interpreter without any context variables,
no search path for modules and classes.

possible example:
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$a_globalvar = 'global value'

$b_globalvar = 'hi I'm here'
c = 'local value'

def some_func(a,b)
 print "#{a} -- #{b}"
end

output = ''

my_rb = MiniRuby.new
my_rb.bind({'a' => $a_globalvar,'c' => c, 'afunc' => some_func)
my_rb.store_stdout(output);
my_rb.eval('if (c != "") && (a != "") then afunc(c,a) end')
print output  # => local_value -- global_value
my_rb.eval('x = 45')
print my_rb.get('x')  # => 45 or nil if not defined or throw exception

print my_rb.get('$b_globalvar') # => nil #no caller context 

my_rb.eval(<<EOD
 def bfunc(ap)
   ap.gsub(' ', ' - ')
 end
EOD
)

p = my_rb.get('bfunc')

print p('outside call') # "outside - call"
my_rm.eval('b = bfunc("hello world")')

print my_rb.get('b') # "hello - world"

my_rb.eval('require "postgres"') # throw exception

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I'm sorry to don't describe it better in english than with code.

Please give comments and ideas.