From: John Smith <ka5427-536@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T07:24:57+09:00
Subject: Re: embedding ruby (*not* extending)

John Smith wrote:
> I need to embed a scripting languange in a C++ application.
> 
> Currently I am evaluating some scripting languages for this purpose.
> 
>   * perl (that works, although it needs a big amount of C++ glue code to 
> deal with the perl stack(s)
>   * python - have not tried yet
>   * lua - that's really great, very easy to embed. Not surpring since 
> lua is "designed to be embedded". Unfortuneately the lua interpreter is 
> very limited
>   * ruby - there is no/very limited docs about howto do that
> 
> 
> to clarify: I am not talking about *extending* ruby, e.g. via SWIG. That 
> is quite easy to do.
> 
> What I mean is *embedding* it into an existing large C++ program and 
> than call some ruby functions (and to give some values to this ruby 
> functions and to get some values back from this ruby functions)
> [...]

thanks a lot guys. Your responses where very very helpful!

I'm going to dive into all of this interesting resources.

BTW: I am developing inside a cross-platform application. It uses:

  * Microsoft Visual Studion 2008
  * gcc - at least v3.3.3 (for Linux and MacOS)