From: web2ed@... (Edward Wilson)
Date: 2002-07-31T04:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Opinion on Ruby maturity, the missing things

> 1) it's not embeddable.
> 
> If you've ever tried using Ruby for, say, doing input text parsing (one of
> it's incredible strengths) in your C/C++ program (think config file or
> similar), then you know it's very difficult to embed Ruby cleanly into your
> app (I've tried and failed).
> 

Are you talking about writing a C/C++ application and embedding Ruby
into your application?

I tried this also, and the problem I ran into on both Linux 2.4 and
WinXP was that when ruby returned it was calling exit(), or something,
because my whole application exited right after ruby did.

I thought it was just me.  Is this an acknowledged bug in the Ruby
community; is anyone fixing this?  I was hoping to build and engine
and had planned on using Ruby as the embedded language.  Are you
saying this won't work.

How can this be fixed? 

Can we fork a new thread of discussion on this?

Sorry to detract from your original post, we need to fix this.

//ed