On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Stephan Mueller wrote:

> * Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb / NASA.gov> [060217 11:32]:
>> It was neat to see Ruby naturally appear under this
>> thread recently on news:comp.lang.fortran
>
> I think Ruby is getting quite popular in SC now. Btw: Is there something
> like f2py for ruby?
>
> I guess one have to use swig instead to get a binding for a fortran lib.
> But there seems to be no english tutorial on the web. Any hints?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steph.
>
> PS: Bil, sorry for the PM.

better still - ruby/dl can call into fortan libs directory : no binding
required.  i think this only works with f77 code though...

check this out

   http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/100842

regards.

-a

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