From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-12-02T22:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Native extension: arguments as a hash

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 14:14, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a native extension in C for Ruby 1.8.7. The method I'm
> working on must have the signature:
>
> def receive(receiver, opts = {})
>
> so that users can call:
>
> receiver(receiver, :timeout => 15) # :timeout is optional
>
> But I can't find a decent example of what such a method would look like
> in C.

We have a function for this in Ruby-GNOME2:

https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/blob/master/glib2/ext/glib2/rbglib.c#L838

You can see it in use here:

https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/blob/0c2ea5ec150c936e00d079ca62501131e32def95/vte/ext/vte/rbvte-terminal.c#L111