# Ruby-C Book? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 24, 2007, 9:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-c-book/89972 "2007-03-24T09:43:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-c-book/89972/1 "2007-03-24T09:43:14Z")
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. 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 … 😛 How high are the chances that such a book would hit the retail stores the next uh lets say… 12 months? (Hope dies last!) ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-c-book/89972/2 "2007-03-24T13:47:06Z")
Hi, On 3/24/07, Marc H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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 … 😛 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](http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/readme.ext.txt) Also be sure to check out: [http://www.eigenclass.org/hiki/ruby+internals+guide](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!) > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). HTH, Michael G. ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-c-book/89972/3 "2007-03-30T14:38:39Z")
> It’s not a book, but I just gave a presentation on this topic. > Perhaps my slides will help. They are at [http://www.ociweb.com/mark/](http://www.ociweb.com/mark/) > Ruby\_C\_Extensions.pdf. Comments on the slides are welcomed! Hi there, its a GREAT slide, visually very appealing. I think by far the best about Ruby + C I saw so far. 🙂 It for sure helps but as you said, its not a book - I guess a real book on this subject would be a lot of work and maybe not enough people interested (compared to general ruby stuff), plus those that are already C gurus would maybe not need it … ☹ Anyway, thanks for this great slide! PS: How did you make the small boxes+arrows? ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-c-book/89972/4 "2007-03-24T17:44:07Z")
On Mar 24, 2007, at 3:43 AM, Marc H. wrote: > 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 … 😛 > > How high are the chances that such a book would hit the retail > stores the next uh lets say… 12 months? (Hope dies last!) It’s not a book, but I just gave a presentation on this topic. Perhaps my slides will help. They are at [http://www.ociweb.com/mark/](http://www.ociweb.com/mark/) Ruby\_C\_Extensions.pdf. Comments on the slides are welcomed! ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-c-book/89972/5 "2007-03-30T15:21:33Z")
On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Marc H. wrote: > > It’s not a book, but I just gave a presentation on this topic. > > Perhaps my slides will help. They are at [http://www.ociweb.com/mark/](http://www.ociweb.com/mark/) > > Ruby\_C\_Extensions.pdf. Comments on the slides are welcomed! > > Hi there, > > its a GREAT slide, visually very appealing. I think by far the best > about Ruby + C I saw so far. 🙂 Thanks! > It for sure helps but as you said, its not a book - I guess a real > book > on this subject would be a lot of work and maybe not enough people > interested (compared to general ruby stuff), plus those that are > already C gurus would maybe not need it … ☹ Right. If there was demand for it, I’d consider writing a book. > Anyway, thanks for this great slide! > > PS: How did you make the small boxes+arrows? I used PowerPoint.