# Rubybind library **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 21, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubybind-library/129750 "2008-02-21T09:46:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubybind-library/129750/1 "2008-02-21T09:46:01Z")
Hey. I’m currently developing a C++/Ruby binding library, called rubybind. (If you know luabind, you’ll know what I aim at) It’s open source, under the MIT license. Currently it’s in a pretty early stage of development but is has something (barely) functional to offer. Feel free to check it out. here it is: [rubybind download | SourceForge.net](https://sourceforge.net/projects/rubybind/) And yes, this is pretty much advertizing… I hope you’re not offended. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubybind-library/129750/2 "2008-02-21T13:06:06Z")
On Feb 21, 3:42 am, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > And yes, this is pretty much advertizing… I hope you’re not offended. have you seen rice yet? It seems like it could be similar… ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubybind-library/129750/3 "2008-02-21T16:18:20Z")
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Tom M [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > here it is:[rubybind download | SourceForge.net](https://sourceforge.net/projects/rubybind/) > > > > And yes, this is pretty much advertizing… I hope you’re not offended. > > have you seen rice yet? It seems like it could be similar… I second the look at Rice (Ruby Interface for C++ Extensions). In fact, I myself began work on this exact type of library, called rubybind, of all things. That was of course until I was pointed to Rice. Rice isn’t reliant on boost, has been in development for some time (internally by Paul B. and others) and only recently officially released. [http://rice.rubyforge.org](http://rice.rubyforge.org) Jason ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubybind-library/129750/4 "2008-02-21T20:36:02Z")
Actually I did know about rice, but the last thing I had read of it was pretty long ago, and I guess I though it was abandoned or at a very early stage of development. Nevertheless I won’t abandon rubybind. This is for several reasons. First, I intend rubybind to be a part of a bigger library boost::(or not boost)language\_bind which will provide a generic for binding C++ with lua, ruby, python (and maybe other languages). This is still being designed and absolutely no details have been though of. I still think that someday I might get to it. Second, after taking a closer look (though not a very detailed yet) I noticed that it is a little different than what rubybinds aims at. The memory management strategies, the exposing of classes and functions and runtime instead of compile-time generated bindings. For now rice looks like it is a lot slower than I thought rubybind would be. Ofcourse since we’re talking about ruby, we get to a whole new dimension of “slow” 🙂 And last, I like creating this library and I still would like this c++ (and ruby) excersise for my personal development. I will be using rubybind for a game that I’m developing in ruby with a light c++ 3d engine of mine, that will be entirely exported to ruby. By all means I would fill more confident using rubybind than rice when creating the game. You know… you own code is always more usable and supportable. There might be a lot of other differences but I still haven’t taken a detailed look at rice. I must admit that I am kinda dissapointed (I honestly thought I was filling an empty niche in software developent with rubybind). Anyway rubybind won’t be abandoned for now. Thanks for the replies