From: Rob Biedenharn <rob@...>
Date: 2012-08-14T12:55:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating a C extension in Ruby


On Aug 13, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Andy P. wrote:

> Well eventually it will communicate with a piece of hardware programmed
> in C and retrieve data. For now, it should return 10. Here is the link
> to the tutorial that I am basing this off of.
> 
> http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-create-a-ruby-extension-in-c-in-under-5-minutes-100.html
> 
> The final product will be a SketchUp Plugin.

Perhaps you haven't seen this:
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/download/rubyscripts.html

Or, perhaps you have since you mention H/W comms. Would it be easier for the communication to happen from Ruby? (Since you don't define the means of the communication.)

-Rob