Ruby Module for SWIG

SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator) is an interface compiler that connects programs written in C and C++ with scripting languages. This module extends SWIG to produce wrapper code for Ruby.

This module generates extension library for Ruby from interface files. This includes following features:

• Eliminates routine coding:
  • Method arguments checking.
  • Default value for omitted arguments.
  • Basic type conversion between Ruby and C.
• Provides mechanism to insert customized code when automatic conversion is not sufficient.
• C structs and C++ classes are automagically wrapped in Ruby classes.

Documentation

• Ruby Examples
• SWIG Documentation

Download

• Ruby module is now a part of the official SWIG release. SWIG1.3a5 includes Ruby module. Get it from swig.sourceforge.net.
• swigruby-0.4.4.tar.gz
  This is preliminary release.
  This version is no more actively maintained.
• Binary Package:
  • deb package (thanks to akira yamada)
  • FreeBSD ports (thanks to knu)
• Changes:
  • Changes from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4:
    • Clarify the license.
  • Changes from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3:
    • C global variables are wrapped in Ruby module attributes.
  • Changes from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2:
    • pred pragma is added.
  • Changes from 0.4 to 0.4.1:
    • FILE * typemap is added.
    • include pragma is added.
    • C++ class inheritance bug fixed.
  • Changes from 0.3 to 0.4:
    • pointer.i is available to Ruby module.
    • typemaps.i bug fixed.
  • Changes from 0.2 to 0.3:
    • Classes and functions can be defined in toplevel.
    • Python style special method names supported. (SWIG cannot handle operator method names.)
  • Changes from 0.1 to 0.2:
    • typemaps.i refined.
    • some bug fix.

Projects powered by SWIG/Ruby

• Ruby/libgraph (by Noritsugu Nakamura)
• Ruby/Qt (by Nobuyuki Horie)

Copyright

Related Links

• SWIG
• SIP