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Ben Giddings
Hey all,
I'm working on a project in MS Visual C++, unfortunately the code is
completely tied to that environment and that IDE so I'm trapped. That C++
code has a GUI which loads a bunch of data, then runs a given algorithm on
each record, deciding whether it passes a test or not. The algorithm has
more than 100 variables with certain interdependencies, and what I'm
working on now is a way of trying to tune the variables to get the best
result. This parameter tuning sounds much easier in Ruby than it does in
C, so I'd like to use a Ruby extension to do it.
Now last night I struggled through the documentation, examples, and
messages and managed to build a C program that uses a Ruby extension on my
iBook in OS X. It wasn't easy, but once I figured out what I was doing it
worked fine. But since Windows (and MSVC++) is so different from OS X and
other Unixish OSes I don't know how to start with embedding Ruby in this
environment.
Could someone give me a hand doing the same thing in MSVC++, provided it is
possible?
Ben
I'm working on a project in MS Visual C++, unfortunately the code is
completely tied to that environment and that IDE so I'm trapped. That C++
code has a GUI which loads a bunch of data, then runs a given algorithm on
each record, deciding whether it passes a test or not. The algorithm has
more than 100 variables with certain interdependencies, and what I'm
working on now is a way of trying to tune the variables to get the best
result. This parameter tuning sounds much easier in Ruby than it does in
C, so I'd like to use a Ruby extension to do it.
Now last night I struggled through the documentation, examples, and
messages and managed to build a C program that uses a Ruby extension on my
iBook in OS X. It wasn't easy, but once I figured out what I was doing it
worked fine. But since Windows (and MSVC++) is so different from OS X and
other Unixish OSes I don't know how to start with embedding Ruby in this
environment.
Could someone give me a hand doing the same thing in MSVC++, provided it is
possible?
Ben