Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Dear all, > As I read ruby's code, I think it is possible to convert ruby > scripts to c codes. But I searched on www.rubyforge.org, and got two > tools which do not do real convertion. By real convertion, I mean to use > c like "extend ruby with c". > The benifits, I think, are more easily interacting with libs writen > by c, especially something like glib or qt. And more stable, e.g. > rcairo, is very unstable. Do you mean something like this: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/18/extending_ruby.html or this: http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-create-a-ruby-extension-in-c-in-under-5-minutes-100.html I do not know how accurate this is - but maybe this gives you a start. Stefan