From: Tim Hunter <sastph@...>
Date: 2006-08-05T05:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Tutorial on wrapping C/C++ libraries for use in Ruby?

Ritesh Tijoriwala wrote:
> Lyle Johnson wrote:
>> On 8/4/06, Ritesh Tijoriwala <riteshtijoriwala@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any tutorial/link/website that explains how to wrap existing
>>> c/c++ libraries for use from within Ruby?
>> Google for "swig ruby" and you should find some useful links. SWIG
>> (http://www.swig.org/) is a tool for semi-automatically generating
>> Ruby wrapper code for C/C++ libraries.
> 
> I tried swig but is not that clean. I am looking for hand wrapping C/C++ 
> libraries for use with Ruby.
> 

The Pickaxe (http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html) 
is probably your best source of information about this. Also the Ruby 
tarball includes a file called (iirc) README.EXT that has the basic 
information.