From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T10:48:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby extension (C++) on OS X and Google-Sketchup [ruby 1


On Jan 27, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Suraj Kurapati wrote:

> Nicholas wrote:
>>   I have written a ruby extension in C++ and it works fine on OS X
>> Tiger which ships ruby-1.8.2.
>
> I'm surprised that it actually works in 1.8.2...

Why? Nothing has fundamentally changed since 1.8.2. His code sample  
should work in 1.6 just fine as well.

>>     cRCL = rb_define_class("rcl", rb_cObject); <=== /CRASH
>
> Why are you defining a class whose name is not capitalized?

That has nothing to do with why he's crashing.

> Ruby doesn't let you do this from Ruby code:
>
> $ irb
> class rcl
>   end
> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):1: class/module name must be CONSTANT
>         from (irb):2

% ruby -e 'names = []; ObjectSpace.each_object(Module) { |o| names <<  
o.name if o.name =~ /^[a-z]/ }; p names'
["fatal"]