CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2014/ch1 1w1h jg

Ruby libraries to load objects of other languages at run time

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It is easy to extend Ruby with new features by writing code in Ruby. But every now and then you need to interface to things at a lower level. Once you start adding in low-level code written in C/C++/java, the possibilities are endless.