From: Jan Luehr <jluehr@...>
Date: 2008-09-29T23:34:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Perl modules

Ryan Davis wrote:

> 
> 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 Googling reveals some rather outdated approaches (eg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 maybe you should try it before you declare it outdated and "nothing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.

Maybe nothing serious is a bit harsh - sorry about that.
I'm looking for a reliable way to use perl code with ruby.
Yoshida Masato's library seems to be unmaintained since 2001/2002, never had
a stable (1.0) release, was tested on linux 2.0 and is requiring perl 5.6
while I'm using 5.10
Do you have any experiences apart from using LWP::Simple? Do you know
projects or software currently using this libarary?

Thanks,
Keep smiling
yanosz