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Extending Ruby with C
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Paul Mucur
May 08, 2012
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Extending Ruby with C
A Learning Lunch presentation about writing C extensions for Ruby.
Paul Mucur
May 08, 2012
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Transcript
EXTENDING RUBY with C
Why?
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
C BINDINGS
C BINDINGS FFI
None
None
array << 1
static VALUE rb_ary_push_1(VALUE ary, VALUE item) {
long idx = RARRAY_LEN(ary); if (idx >= ARY_CAPA(ary)) { ary_double_capa(ary, idx); } RARRAY_PTR(ary)[idx] = item; ARY_SET_LEN(ary, idx + 1); return ary; }
EXT/WORLD/WORLD.C
> World.hello => "Hello, World!"
require "world" describe World do describe "#hello" do
it "greets the world" do World.hello.should == "Hello, World!" end end end
module World module_function def hello
"Hello, World!" end end
None
HELLO
return rb_str_new("Hello, World!", 13);
static VALUE world_hello(VALUE obj) { return rb_str_new("Hello, World!", 13);
}
WORLD
VALUE world_mWorld = rb_define_module("World"); rb_define_module_function(world_mWorld, "hello", world_hello,
0);
#include <ruby.h> static VALUE world_hello(VALUE obj) { return rb_str_new("Hello,
World!", 13); } void Init_world(void) { VALUE world_mWorld = rb_define_module("World"); rb_define_module_function(world_mWorld, "hello", world_hello, 0); }
COMPILATION
require "mkmf"
require "mkmf" $CFLAGS << " -‐Wall -‐Wextra" create_makefile("world")
$ ruby ext/world/extconf.rb creating Makefile
$ make compiling ext/world/world.c linking shared-‐object world.bundle
$ rspec spec/world_spec.rb . Finished in 0.00399 seconds 1
example, 0 failures
None
$ rake compile
require 'rake/extensiontask' require 'rspec/core/rake_task' Rake::ExtensionTask.new('world') RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new('test') task :test
=> :compile task :default => :test
it "greets someone by name, if given" do World.hello("Bob").should
== "Hello, Bob!" end
“If argc is -1, the function will be called as:
VALUE func(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE obj) where argc is the actual number of arguments, argv is the C array of the arguments, and obj is the receiver.”
def hello(name = nil) if name
"Hello, #{name}!" else "Hello, World!" end end
rb_define_module_function(world_mWorld, "hello", world_hello, -‐1);
static VALUE world_hello(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE obj) {
VALUE name; rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &name); ... }
static VALUE world_hello(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE obj) {
VALUE name; rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &name); if (NIL_P(name)) { return rb_str_new("Hello, World!", 13); } else { ... } }
static VALUE world_hello(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE obj) {
VALUE name, greeting; rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &name); if (NIL_P(name)) { greeting = rb_str_new("Hello, World!", 13); } else { greeting = rb_str_new("Hello, ", 7); rb_str_cat(greeting, RSTRING_PTR(name), RSTRING_LEN(name)); rb_str_cat(greeting, "!", 1); } return greeting; }
$ rake clean test rm -‐r tmp/x86_64-‐darwin11.3.0/world/1.9.3 mkdir -‐p tmp/x86_64-‐darwin11.3.0/world/1.9.3
cd tmp/x86_64-‐darwin11.3.0/world/1.9.3 /Users/mudge/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-‐p125/bin/ruby -‐ I. ../../../../ext/world/extconf.rb creating Makefile cd -‐ cd tmp/x86_64-‐darwin11.3.0/world/1.9.3 make compiling ../../../../ext/world/world.c linking shared-‐object world.bundle cd -‐ install -‐c tmp/x86_64-‐darwin11.3.0/world/1.9.3/world.bundle lib/ world.bundle /Users/mudge/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-‐p125/bin/ruby -‐S rspec ./ spec/world_spec.rb .. Finished in 0.00081 seconds 2 examples, 0 failures
None
QUESTIONS?