Eloy, I have noticed that JRuby interfaces with Nokogiri gem via FFI today and works as expected. Now, it would be great to have a single version of Nokogiri that works with all Ruby VMs that support FFI interface.
-Conrad On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Eloy Duran <eloy.de.en...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Work on a FFI interface for Nokogiri has already been started by the > author, you can find it here: > http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/macruby > > I have no idea on how good or not it works, though. > > Eloy > > On 27 dec 2009, at 09:34, Conrad Taylor wrote: > > Jarred, after further analysis in regards to installing an earlier version > of the Mechanize gem (i.e. 0.8.5), it has a couple of runtime dependencies: > > hpricot >= 0.5.0, Note: This gem contains C Ruby native extensions. > > hoe >= 1.8.2, Note: This gem contains pure Ruby code. > > Thus, you'll still have issues installing earlier version of Mechanize gem > like version 0.8.5 because it depends on a gem which has C Ruby native > extensions. I have been reading many threads on moving away from using C > Ruby extensions to using FFI which allows any client that supports FFI to > easily connect to native librarie(s). The benefit would be to allow one to > do the following: > > For example, using Nokogiri as an example: > > a) build a Nokogiri interface and push the sources to github.com > b) push the Nokogiri library sources to > 1) to MacPorts, Linux distros, and so > 2) to github.com > > BTW, this is very similar to what we need to do today to interact with > MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3 relational databases from Ruby. However, > Ruby FFI makes this process much easier. Lastly, you can read more about > FFI here: > > http://mwrc2009.confreaks.com/13-mar-2009-16-10-ffi-jeremy-hinegardner.html > http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi > http://www.igvita.com/2009/01/15/bridging-mri-jruby-rubinius-with-ffi/ > http://blog.headius.com/2008/10/ffi-for-ruby-now-available.html > > http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-ffi-library-calling-external-libraries-now-easier-1293.html > > Good luck, > > -Conrad > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > >
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