From: Christoph Kappel <unexist@...>
Date: 2010-02-14T01:25:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting started with the C API

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Basically you can use anything that enlists the API for ruby extensions, I =
had a hard time figuring all
out when embedding ruby into my window manager (subtle) and writing the C e=
xtension:

Here are some of my favorite links beside the pickaxe:
http://www.eqqon.com/index.php/Ruby/Ruby_V1.9_C_Extension
http://macournoyer.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/ruby-to-c-a-couple-snippets/
http://metaeditor.sourceforge.net/embed/ (For embedding, outdated but still=
 helpful)

And for building stuff:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/mkmf/rdoc/index.html

Many other things need to be checked in the ruby doxygen or even worse in t=
he source code for stuff
like this:

Wbr,

Christoph

http://subforge.org/blogs/show/1

---- On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:25:46 +0100 Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular=
.com> wrote ----=20

>Greets,=20
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>I've been teaching myself Ruby using David Black's book, "The=20
>Well-Grounded Rubyist". 5 chapters in or so, things are going well.=20
>However, things would be going even better if I was able to get=20
>started on the project that's motivating my course of study: there's a=20
>C library I'd like to write Ruby bindings for.=20
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>The Black book, while appropriate in pace and tone for an experienced=20
>programmer, doesn't cover any sort of Ruby C API. The pickaxe book=20
>does, but before I go and buy a copy of that, I'd like to know if=20
>those pickaxe chapters are really the canonical reference. That seems=20
>weird.=20
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>What I'm looking for is the analogue to these pages:=20
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> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlxstut.html=20
> http://docs.python.org/3.1/c-api/index.html=20
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jni/html/jniTOC.html=20
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>>From what I can tell, the closest thing Ruby has to that is a raw=20
>Doxygen dump...=20
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> http://www.ruby-doc.org/doxygen/current/=20
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>... but that's not much better than just spelunking the source code,=20
>because it doesn't give you any idea where to get started.=20
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>I know the first edition of the pickaxe book is online, but I don't=20
>like to waste time learning from dated materials.=20
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>Where should I be looking?=20
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>Marvin Humphrey
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