From: Shea Martin <shea@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T04:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ebedded: calling a C function from script.

> According to one of your previous posts, you use rb_load_file to load a file, 
> of course thinking that that was the C function corresponding to the 
> ruby 'load' method. The problem is that this is not true. The C function 
> corresponding to 'load' is rb_load, which takes one VALUE (the name of the 
> file, as a ruby string) and one int (analogous to the second parameter of the 
> ruby load method). Of course you could use the function corresponding 
> to 'require', rb_require, which takes a char* argument with the name of the 
> file. So, you should replace the code
> 
> rb_load_file( "test.rb" )
> 
> with
> 
> rb_load(rb_str_new2("test.rb"),0);
> 
> or with
> 
> rb_require("test.rb");
> 
> I hope this solves your problem
> 
> Stefano
> 

I had fixed the problem using rb_require. Would it be better to use 
rb_load?  rb_load is not mentioned in the pick axe book... which again 
brings up the question of if anyone knows of a reference for the ruby 
embedded API.

Thanks,
~S