From: Mark Volkmann <mark@...>
Date: 2007-03-25T01:43:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-C Book?

On Mar 24, 2007, at 3:43 AM, Marc Heiler wrote:

> I am still trying to improve my poor C and Ruby-C knowledge,
> today I managed to use rb_iv_set and rb_iv_get successfully ... wow ;)
>
> But what I would really like to have would be a Pickaxe2-like
> book dedicated to the C Side of ruby AT BEST with examples.
>
> Pickaxe2 has a chapter, and while Pickaxe2 is one of my all-time
> favourite books of programming language books (granted, many others
> are so boring so maybe thats quite easy ... :D) - the chapter
> about the C side is really very very short.
>
> My current method is to dig through other people's code,
> trying to understand and so on, but it would be darn awesome
> if such a book would exist. In english ... :P
>
> How high are the chances that such a book would hit the retail
> stores the next uh lets say... 12 months? (Hope dies last!)

It's not a book, but I just gave a presentation on this topic.  
Perhaps my slides will help. They are at http://www.ociweb.com/mark/ 
Ruby_C_Extensions.pdf. Comments on the slides are welcomed!