From: Micah Carrick <email@...>
Date: 2007-06-05T14:43:22+09:00
Subject: Another beginner question

Sorry if my "newbie" questions are excessive. I promise that if/when I 
start getting on my feet with Ruby programming I will contribute back to 
the learning process 10-fold. That's how I role.

Simple question:

I was turned on to Ruby via Ruby on Rails at the RailsConf here in 
Portland via a friend. I was told there's a "plugin" (I'm assuming for 
rails) for inline C code. What I'm wondering-- is as an interpreted 
language, if there is a chunk of code that needs to execute very 
quickly, is there a way to have C code that's compiled? Perhaps a library?

So, let's say I have a little GTK+ GUI that I wrote in Ruby to save 
time, but it has some process-intensive routine-- could I write that 
routine in C and have it as a compiled binary and run within my Ruby code?

-- 
- Micah Carrick

  Developer - http://www.micahcarrick.com
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