From: Charles Mills <boson@...>
Date: 2004-01-20T01:53:02+09:00
Subject: Re: calling ruby methods in C

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Charles Mills wrote:

> VALUE arr = rb_ary_new2(some_num);
> VALUE some_obj = ...;
> rb_ary_push(arr, some_obj);
> 
> or this:
> 
> VALUE arr = rb_ary_new2(some_num);
> VALUE some_obj = ...;
> rb_funcall(arr, rb_intern("push"), 1, some_obj);
> 
> So my main question is:
> should you only call the C function defined in "ruby.h" directly (not
> using rb_funcall) in you extensions or is it OK to call the C functions
> defined in "intern.h" directly as well?

Looks like this question was mostly answered by this post
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/1807
but the question still remains is it better to use rb_funcall to invoke
the Ruby method or call the corresponding C function directly?

-Charlie