From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T11:26:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Perl Integration

John W. Long wrote:

> I would think their similarities would make it easier to integrate them. I'm
> thinking of a perl.so extension. Something that would let me do:
> 
> require "perl"
> perl_require "myperlmodule"
> 
> and then use the perl code in a rubyish way.

There's already a similar thing for Python that works quite seamlessly, doing automatic conversion between Ruby/Python data types etc.

Has anyone actually used it for real work?  I don't remember ever seeing anyone mention it on the list.

Harry O.