RE: [Rubydotnet-developer] [ANN]: rubydotnet-0.2.0

[Thomas S. <th...@th...>]

Hi Tim,

> Hi Thomas. This looks really great! I've suspended my project 
> in favour of yours. I like the "implements 
> System::IDisposable" example.

Thanks.

> Does your project support calling Ruby from C#?

No, you can't embed the ruby interpreter yet. It is a very good idea,
though. I wonder what it would take to make it happen? The marshalling
code is essentially the same and the same services are necessary for
calling back to .net from ruby. Wouldn't it be a simple matter of
creating a managed C++ extension that hosts the .net interpreter and
makes it require 'dotnet'. The API would then be

namespace RubyDotNet {

	class RubyInterpreter {

		// Ideally you would have a static createInstance
		// or just a ctor, but ruby is non-reentrant, so we
		// would have to settle for
		public static RubyInterpreter instance { get { ... } }

		private RubyInterpreter() { ... }

		public object eval(string rubyString, object[] args) {
... }		


		// Perhaps some convenience methods

		public object eval(string rubyString) {
			return eval(rubyString, null);
		}

		public bool require(string fileName) {
			eval("require '"+fileName+"'");
		}

		...
	}
}

Initializing the ruby interpreter is not difficult, so I think it should
be relatively easy to implement the necessary method eval() and the
ctor.

Cheers,

Thomas