Ruby-Elixir interoperability
There are some gems for decoding Erlang's External Term Format, but they were all prepared for Erlang and it's semantics. This library keeps itself closer to Elixir:
| Ruby | Elixir |
|---|---|
Fixnum |
integer |
Bignum |
integer |
Float |
float |
Symbol |
atom |
Exrb::NewReference or Exrb::Reference |
reference |
Exrb::Port |
port |
Exrb::Pid |
pid |
Exrb::Tuple |
tuple |
Hash |
map |
Exrb::ErlangNil |
[] |
Array |
`list |
Exrb::ImproperList |
improper_list |
utf-8 encoded String |
String.t |
Exrb::Binary |
binary that is not valid utf-8 |
Exrb::Function or Exrb::NewFunction |
fun |
Exrb::Export |
fun as in &String.is_string?/1 |
Exrb::Bitstring |
bitstring |
Currently a lot of those types is related to the External Term Format, but they will be merged together in the future for uniform representation.
All custom type classes in Ruby are deep frozen.