Post by Peter Cooper on March 31st, 2007

Ruby and C Integration Presentation

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Mark Volkmann has put together a kickass presentation [PDF] that walks through topics relating to C/Ruby integration. If you want to write a library in C that integrates with Ruby, or vice versa, it's an essential read.

And while we're at it.. two years ago Garrett Rooney wrote an article called "Extending Ruby with C" that could come in useful too. It's a little old, but covers a lot. He demonstrates how to take a basic, pre-existing C library and make it accessible from Ruby.

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3 Responses to “Ruby and C Integration Presentation”

  1. #1
    Alexander Lomakin Says:
    March 31st, 2007 at 10:03 am

    It looks very difficult for me. I think, this issue is very useful, but not simple - only for professionals!

  2. #2
    Vasudev Ram Says:
    March 31st, 2007 at 11:58 am

    Thanks! Should be useful ...

    Vasudev Ram
    http://www.dancingbison.com

  3. #3
    Daniel Berger Says:
    April 2nd, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    Looks good. There's a mistake I noticed - NIL_P() and FIXNUM_P() do not raise exceptions. They're boolean macro functions.