From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-02-26T02:03:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling perl function in ruby

On Feb 23, 2009, at 22:21, Loga Ganesan wrote:

> Below code is used for calling c function in ruby.
>
> #! /usr/bin/ruby
>
> require '/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/inline.rb'
>
> puts "Inline module......"
> class MyTest
>        inline do |builder|
>                builder.c "
>                long factorial(int max) {
>                       int i=max, result=1;
>                       while (i >= 2) { result *= i--; }
>                               return result;
>                }"
>        end
> end
> t = MyTest.new()
> fact = t.factorial(5)
> puts fact
>
> Question:
>
> Likewise, instead of c I have to write a perl function and should call
> it?
>
> Is there an way?

There's an Inline::Perl in ZenHacks, but it's never been released.