= redrat

• https://github.com/fdr/redrat

== DESCRIPTION:

Ruby and Python speak C.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• Bootstraps low level access to Python constructs to enable Python utilization in Ruby.

• Bootstraps low level access to Python constructs to enable Python utilization in Ruby.

== SYNOPSIS:

require 'redrat' include RedRat::Internal

def get_builtin name apply(getattr(builtins, unicode('getitem')), unicode(name)) end

Only comes with Python in version 2.7

import = get_builtin 'import' argparse = apply(import, RedRat::Internal::unicode('argparse')) ArgumentParser = getattr(argparse, unicode('ArgumentParser')) apply(get_builtin('help'), ArgumentParser)

== REQUIREMENTS:

• python of some version (tested most with 2.7)
• python-config in PATH, or specified to rake compile

== INSTALL:

• gem install redrat

== DEVELOPERS:

Depends on 'hoe'. I cannot claim to understand it, as I cribbed it from other sources. Comments welcome. One can run the tests with:

$ rake test

== LICENSE:

(BSD, 2 clause)

Copyright (c) 2011, Daniel Farina All rights reserved.

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