Rice: Ruby Interface for C++ Extensions
What is Rice?
Rice is a C++ interface to Ruby’s C API. It provides a type-safe and
exception-safe interface in order to make embedding Ruby and writing
Ruby extensions with C++ easier. It is similar to Boost.Python in many
ways, but also attempts to provide an object-oriented interface to all
of the Ruby C API.
What’s New?
- Fully compatible with Ruby 1.9.2
- Constructor now supports default arguments
- Ability to define implicit casting rules through
define_implicit_cast - Various tweaks, bug fixes, and memory management updates
Supported Platforms:
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Linux
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Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
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While Windows has been known to work with MinGW / MSYS, I haven’t
been able to keep this testing up as of late. Would appreciate any
help
here.
What Rice gives you:
- A simple C+±based syntax for wrapping and defining classes
- Automatic conversion of exceptions between C++ and Ruby
- Smart pointers for handling garbage collection
- Wrappers for most builtin types to simplify calling code
Documentation: http://rice.rubyforge.org
Project Page: GitHub - jameskilton/rice: Account name changed!
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How do you get Rice?
gem install rice
Note: Rice does require a C++ compiler. See the Documentation page for
more details.
How simple of a syntax?
wrapper.cpp
#include <rice/Class.hpp>
#include <rice/Constructor.hpp>
class MyWrapper {
public:
MyWrapper() { }
void doThis() { }
int doThat(int a, float b) { }
};
extern “C”
void Init_wrapper()
{
define_class(“MyWrapper”)
.define_constructor(Constructor())
.define_method(“do_this”, &MyWrapper::doThis)
.define_method(“do_that”, &MyWrapper::doThat);
}
extconf.rb
require ‘mkmf-rice’
create_makefile(“wrapper”)
test.rb
require ‘wrapper’
c = MyWrapper.new
c.do_this
c.do_that(1, 2.0)