From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-09-15T13:26:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Python and Ruby to Talk to Each Other

In article <7c40e468.0209141347.4d338e56@posting.google.com>,
Sam Hunting <shunting@etopicality.com> wrote:
>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.

Well, since the database is written in C you could write a C extention for 
Ruby just as you have for Python.  Perhaps you could use SWIG 
(http://www.swig.org) for this?  I would suggest that this would probably 
be easier than having Python query your C database and pass the info to 
Ruby.

Phil