From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-09-29T19:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Perl modules


On Sep 28, 2008, at 14:09 , Jan Luehr wrote:

> since there are a lot of perl modules out there, I wonder if someone  
> has
> tried to use perl modules / functions in Ruby recently.
> Googling reveals some rather outdated approaches (eg
> http://www.yoshidam.net/perl_en.txt) but nothing serious.

maybe you should try it before you declare it outdated and "nothing  
serious". I was able to fire up LWP::Simple, fetch a page, and do  
stuff with it. That seems like a lot more than "nothing serious" to me.