Rubber Generate

Template language for generating Ruby bindings for C libraries
by Geoff Youngs <g@intersect-uk.co.uk>

A simple ruby-style bindings generator for Ruby. It allows bindings to
be laid out in a Ruby style, documentation to be included inline and
explicit type casts within C code. It’s somewhere between SWIG and pyrex.

It also allows features extconf.rb creation, including checks for headers,
pkg-config etc. The modules it creates currently depend on Ruby/GTK, but
it is planned to remove this dependency unless they genuinely require Ruby/GTK.

Other features include custom named type-maps, pre/post code inclusion within
functions and some rudimentary understanding of C code.

• 0.0.20 – 31st Jul 2013
  – Auto-scan loaded gems for missing headers
  – Add support for %include_dir gem:foo or gem:foo/path/in/gem

• 0.0.19 – 17th June 2013
  – Ruby 1.9 changes arguments for rb_num_coerce_cmp() – fixed.

• 0.0.18 – 16th Nov 2012
  – Fixes for finding ruby-gnome2 header in gems
  – Improved error reporting

• 0.0.17 – 16th Nov 2012
  – Ruby 1.9 fixes

• 0.0.16 – 20th Oct 2011
  – Add GCC pragma to reduce warnings on unused variables

• 0.0.15 – 18th Oct 2011
  – Add support for scanning gem directories for ruby-gnome2 headers
  – Fix missing fileutils dependency

• 0.0.14 – 18th Oct 2011
  – Add define_on_self to genum (allow constants to be defined within submodule rather than on parent module/class)

• 0.0.13 – 5th May 2011
  – Bug fix for gcpool

• 0.0.12 – 3rd May 2011
  – Add support for uint64 conversion

• 0.0.11 – 27th Apr 2011
  – Fix parsing of %min-version numbers

• 0.0.10 – 27th Apr 2011
  – Add —install flag

• 0.0.9 – 31st May 2010
  – Add support for —build-dir switch to specify output directory

• 0.0.8 – 10th May 2010
  – Add support for %min-version ..

• 0.0.7 – 7th May 2010
  – Add support for array constants (including autmatic type detection) – e.g array = [ “Text”, NULL, 3 ]
  – Add syntax_error function to parser which reports slightly more helpful syntax error messages for a .cr file
  – Add tracking of code location so that C compiler throws errors which refer to the original line in the .cr file
  – Add support for GSList{type} or GList{type} conversion to arrays as return values for functions

• 0.0.6 – 6th May 2010
  – Flags class allows wrapping a bit field with slightly more information. Plus automatic conversion to/from ruby and support for integer values.

• Ruby 1.8 / Ruby 1.9 / Ruby 2.0

Sample file:

• example/vte.cr

Usage:

  $ rubber-generate —generate —build —install vte.cr

Which should generate
[arch]/vte.c <- Source code for extension
[arch]/vte.rd <- RD documentation from vte.cr
[arch]/extconf.rb <- Config script
[arch]/vte.o <- Object file
[arch]/vte.so <- Compiled extension

  $ sudo gem install rubber-generate

Author: Geoff Youngs

Contributors:

• Vincent Isambart