From: Brad Ediger <brad@...>
Date: 2007-11-12T04:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Grokking the C code


On Nov 11, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Stefan Kanev wrote:

> Last few days I've been spending parts of the evenings digging into
> Ruby's C code. I'm trying to get a basic idea of how everything works,
> both to learn and to introduce some tweaks in the language (just for
> my personal enjoyment). I'm finding that as a big bite, though. Can
> you guys recommend me how to tackle the whole thing? And is there some
> basic overview of how the code works (for example, how eval.c works
> and what are the frame, tag, iter and so on structs) from which I get
> get the big idea?

Definitely start out with the Ruby Hacking Guide:

http://rhg.rubyforge.org/

Only a few chapters have been translated into English so far, but it  
should be more than enough to get you started.

-be