[ANN] Rice 1.3.1 - Bug fixes and memory management tweaks

[Jason Roelofs]

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Rice: Ruby Interface for C++ Extensions
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What is Rice?

Rice is a C++ interface to Ruby's C API. It provides a type-safe and
exception-safe interface in order to make embedding Ruby and writing
Ruby extensions with C++ easier. It is similar to Boost.Python in many
ways, but also attempts to provide an object-oriented interface to all
of the Ruby C API.


What's New?

* Fixed local gem install (~/.gem)
* Fixed compilation error on no-argument static class methods that return
reference types
* Better implicit handling of const reference types

* Fixed potential memory leaks when dealing with Rice::Arg

* Changed mailing list away from Google Groups to http://librelist.com


Supported Platforms:

* Linux
* Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
* Windows with MinGW / MSYS


What Rice gives you:

* A simple C++-based syntax for wrapping and defining classes
* Automatic conversion of exceptions between C++ and Ruby
* Smart pointers for handling garbage collection
* Wrappers for most builtin types to simplify calling code

Documentation: http://rice.rubyforge.org

Project Page: http://github.com/jameskilton/rice

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How do you get Rice?

gem install rice

Note: Rice does require a C++ compiler. See the Documentation page for
more details.


How simple of a syntax?

wrapper.cpp

#include <rice/Class.hpp>
#include <rice/Constructor.hpp>

class MyWrapper {
public:
MyWrapper() { }

void doThis() { }
int doThat(int a, float b) { }
};

extern "C"
void Init_wrapper()
{
define_class<MyWrapper>("MyWrapper")
.define_constructor(Constructor<MyWrapper>())
.define_method("do_this", &MyWrapper::doThis)
.define_method("do_that", &MyWrapper::doThat);
}

extconf.rb

require 'mkmf-rice'
create_makefile("wrapper")

test.rb

require 'wrapper'
c = MyWrapper.new
c.do_this
c.do_that(1, 2.0)