From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-06-24T22:06:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedded Ruby?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Merrick" <Steve.Merrick@anti-spam.Marconi.com.web-hosting.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 7:51 AM
Subject: Embedded Ruby?


> I start a new job shortly, and I have to maintain an 8051-based
> assembly-language program. I have already been told that one of my first
> tasks will be to consider migrating it to a new language, to ease the
> difficulty of finding people to maintain it. Being 8051-based, resources
> are at a premium. It occurs to me that embedding Ruby is one possible
> option. Is there any information available on how to do this? Does one
> just build the source code (in C), and bundle a Ruby script in with it?
> Any hints gratefully accepted.
> 
> --
> Steve Merrick
> 
> "Who cares, wins"
> 
> P.S. I've seen stuff about 'eRuby' - which I assume is 'embedded Ruby',
> but I can't seem to find it again.... :-(

eruby is probably useless to you in this context.
It refers to Ruby code embedded in text files (like
a templating system), not embedded into devices.

I don't think there's been much done in the way of
embedding Ruby. There may even be some significant
technical obstacles. Others will know more than I.

Hal Fulton