MRuby Examples

MRuby examples to demonstrate usage.

Compiling

Get MRuby

Make sure to have MRuby installed, see here.

If you are on Linux chances are MRuby is already in the package repositories of your favorite distro! then you'll need to use your distro specific package manager to install it. E.g:

APT:

sudo apt install libmruby-dev

DNF:

sudo dnf install mruby-devel

Pacman:

sudo pacman -S mruby

That will install all the development headers needed to use MRuby.

Build

In the root of this repo:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Summary

Examples included here:

• hello-world/
  Simple hello world
• hello-file/
  Load ruby code from a file
• pushing-variables/
  Push various datatypes to Ruby land
• objects/
  Create classes/objects from C
• checking-for-methods/
  Try to find methods in Ruby land
• call-methods/
  Calling methods in Ruby land from C land
• using-cdata/
  Encapsulate C-data in a ruby object
• kwargs/
  Parse keyword arguments
• blocks/
  Use blocks from various ways

Credits

Credits where due, here are some helpful articles/post/resources that helped me to learn how to use MRuby:

• Executing Ruby code with MRuby
• MRuby GUI series

License

All the examples found here are licensed under the MIT license.