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Hi,

On 3/24/07, Marc Heiler <shevegen / linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> I am still trying to improve my poor C and Ruby-C knowledge,
> today I managed to use rb_iv_set and rb_iv_get successfully ... wow ;)
>
> But what I would really like to have would be a Pickaxe2-like
> book dedicated to the C Side of ruby AT BEST with examples.


I would also like to see this.  My C knowledge is minimal at best, and my
knowledge of tying Ruby and C is very limited.

Pickaxe2 has a chapter, and while Pickaxe2 is one of my all-time
> favourite books of programming language books (granted, many others
> are so boring so maybe thats quite easy ... :D) - the chapter
> about the C side is really very very short.
>
> My current method is to dig through other people's code,
> trying to understand and so on, but it would be darn awesome
> if such a book would exist. In english ... :P


If you compiled Ruby from source, be sure to check out README.EXT.  If not,
it's posted online: http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/readme.ext.txt

Also be sure to check out:
http://www.eigenclass.org/hiki/ruby+internals+guide

How high are the chances that such a book would hit the retail
> stores the next uh lets say... 12 months? (Hope dies last!)
>
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>

HTH,
Michael Guterl

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