From: Marvin Humphrey <marvin@...>
Date: 2010-02-14T06:56:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting started with the C API

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 01:25:30AM +0900, Christoph Kappel wrote:
> Here are some of my favorite links beside the pickaxe:
> http://www.eqqon.com/index.php/Ruby/Ruby_V1.9_C_Extension

Ah, that's the README, html-ified.  Curious that ruby-lang.org doesn't give it
greater visibility.

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

I think I'm going to need Rake, as the build process for this library is very
involved.  The Perl bindings use Module::Build, the pure-Perl successor to
ExtUtils::MakeMaker, beause doing complicated stuff with MakeMaker is a
nightmare.  I'm expecting to need something analogous for the Ruby bindings.

I also intend to publish a gem later.  It seems like docs.rubygems.org is a
good place to start, though it references a non-existent "DeveloperGuide"
(sigh).

    http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/5#page18

Also, this...

    http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/5/460/faq.html

... and there are two books which have a chapter or two on creating gems --
both apparently out of date:

  http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Ruby-Gems-David-Berube/dp/1590598113
  http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Cookbooks-OReilly-Lucas-Carlson/dp/0596523696/

> Many other things need to be checked in the ruby doxygen or even worse in
> the source code for stuff like this:
> 
> Wbr,

Hmm... that's pretty confusing, all right.  ;)

Marvin Humphrey