From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-22T18:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby extension tutorial

On Jan 21, 2007, at 16:10, Wim Vander Schelden wrote:
> Wim Vander Schelden schreef:
>> I just finished a tutorial about writing simple ruby extensions.
>> I was hoping you guys could give me some feedback on what you  
>> think about it.
>>
>> If you find any mistakes (code, spelling, grammar and  
>> explanation), I would also appreciate it if you told me about them?
>
> http://nanoblog.ath.cx/index.rb?module=readmore&id=8

> exit unless have_header("stdio.h")

I'd change this to:

abort 'need stdio.h' unless have_header("stdio.h")

but other than that, thank you, thank you, thank you for using an  
example that doesn't proceed to write a Makefile when the right  
thingies aren't found.  I think about half the C extensions I've  
installed puke somewhere after attempting to build rather than puking  
cleanly in extconf.rb.

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Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net

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