From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-09-03T03:45:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Handling .dll file using ruby in windows XP

On Sep 2, 2:16 am, Chandra Sekhar <chandu.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Ruby. I want to use a dll with RUBY to change/modify the
> frequency value in a signal generator.
>
> Is it possible to open dll file in ruby to read/write the value in it?
>

While you can alter the contents of a binary file (DLL), I presume is
not what you want as will render the DLL useless afterwards.

Please read the API documentation of the DLL you want to use and take
a look to Ruby FFI interface for writing down a module that interfaces
it.

http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi/

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Luis Lavena