From: shunting@... (Sam Hunting)
Date: 2002-09-15T07:06:02+09:00
Subject: Getting Python and Ruby to Talk to Each Other

A clueless Ruby newbie seeks help...

I have gotten Ruby's amazing Linda tuplespace up and running which was
incredibly easy, so not using Ruby is not an option -- and I have a
database (not relational, not at all standard, written in C) that I
must use a Python extension to query and capture result sets, so not
using Python is not an option.

So how can I pass a query (in the form of a text string) from rinda to
Python, and how can I pass the results (also in the form of a text
string) from Python back to rinda?

I tried opening the same socket in Python and Ruby (works in Ruby
only!) and got a "packet size" error. It's also been suggested to me
that I use mkfifo to set up a pipe for the Python process to
communicate with the Ruby process.

Any thoughts on this? I'm obviously quite inexperienced at this, so a
sample snippet of ruby code would really help.

Thanks in advance!