Calling DLL's from Ruby

Ruby
#1

I’ve written quite a bit of logic into DLL’s using C#. I would like
to leverage that logic in my Ruby scripts, but I am unsure where to
start or how to start. I’ve installed RubyClr, but no documentation
installed with it.

Is RubyClr the correct path to take? Where can I find examples?
Should I be looking elsewhere?

Any and all recommendations are appreciated.
dvn

#2

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM, dkmd_nielsen [email protected] wrote:

I’ve written quite a bit of logic into DLL’s using C#. I would like
to leverage that logic in my Ruby scripts, but I am unsure where to
start or how to start. I’ve installed RubyClr, but no documentation
installed with it.

Is RubyClr the correct path to take? Where can I find examples?
Should I be looking elsewhere?

I have used RubyCLR and ruby-mono[1], but don’t know if I still have
any of the old projects sitting around. There is also the Sapphire in
Steel Ruby bridge[2] or perhaps hitting .Net via Win32 COM. I have
some links in my mail archives[3,4,5] but don’t know if they still are
alive or useful since my company doesn’t allow outbound http anymore.

[1] http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-mono/
[2] …
[3] http://rbazinet.wordpress.com/2006/03/30/rubyclr-ruby-meets-net/
[4] http://www.iunknown.com/articles/tag/rubyclr
[5]
http://rubyforge.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/Samples/?root=rubyclr

Found this snippet:
require ‘rubyclr’

RubyClr::reference_file ‘Assembly.dll’

include Assembly

connection = DataStoreConnection.new
connection.Open

#3

Is RubyClr the correct path to take? Where can I find examples?
Should I be looking elsewhere?

Have you looked at ruby/dl?
-=R

#4

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:14 PM, [email protected] wrote:

any of the old projects sitting around.
Found an old ruby-mono project while I was cleaning up:

require ‘mono’

class RPCClient
def initialize server
@assembly = Mono::loadAssembly( “rpcclient.dll” )
@RPC = @assembly.new “Remoting::Client”
@RPC.Initialize( server )
end

def call rpc_call
@RPC.Call( rpc_call )
end
end

Remoting::Client was a C# class that would send a string request over
a TCP remote channel to a Remoting::Server and return the string
response.