From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2003-08-24T07:26:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & Perl

On Saturday 23 August 2003 17:00, Mark Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 04:16 PM, David Corbin wrote:
> > Has anyone considered some way to make Perl modules callable from Ruby?
> > Although I'm growing ot like Ruby quite a bit, the vast quantity of
> > Perl
> > Modules is a long way from being matched in Ruby.  Being able to call
> > them
> > from Ruby would be awesome.
> >
> > David
>
> Here's an example:
>
> require 'shell'
> Shell.def_system_command("txt2html")
> text_to_html = String.new
> shell = Shell.new
> shell.transact do
>    text_to_html = (shell.txt2html("--infile", ARGV[0],
> "--endpreformat_trigger_lines", "1")).to_s
> end
> puts text_to_html
>
> Save as 'txt2html.rb'
>
> Run 'ruby txt2html.rb infile.txt'
>

I'm not talking about invoke system commands, I'm talking about having a 
system for invoking perl librarys/methods/objects/methods, getting back 
ruby-accessible objects.

> Regards,
>
> Mark