From: Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>
Date: 2007-01-15T20:50:09+09:00
Subject: Re: using ruby in place of C

On 1/15/07, Chris Finch <christopher.finch@nuth.nhs.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> This may be silly question but:
>
> There is a program that I want to use that says:
> "there is a C interface provided so that user codes can be written in C
> or C++."
>
> What I want to know is if I can write these "user codes" in ruby
> instead?

But you will have to work at writing a Ruby extension in C that uses
the published C interface first. If you intend to use the program from
Ruby a lot, it will make a lot of sense to do so.