Hi,

I am not too clear regarding the meaning of "send the parsed data to
extension".

In my case, the extension has the default values while the file has the
user-definable parameters.  For user's ease-of-use, he needs to do only
"require 'my_extension'".  my_extension defines several global
(configuration) parameters with their default values.  The user, however,
can also change the parameters in a separate file called conf.rb, which
can simply contain statements such as

    $param1 = myValue

Therefore, in my_extension, first the global variables are defined with
their default values, and then, it may be overridden by the Ruby
statements in conf.rb.

Also, I remember that in Tcl, there is a "source" statement which is
pretty similar to C's #include directive, which has the net effect of
inserting the content of the file at that point.  Is Ruby's
"rb_require" or "rb_load" the same as Tcl's "source"?

Regards,

Bill
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Erik Bagfors <erik / bagfors.nu> wrote:
> Why go ruby->C->ruby?  Why not do
> 1) parse the file
> 2) require your extension
> 3) send the parsed data to extension?

> /Erik