ruby-v8

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h1. V8 for Ruby

Run the V8 Javascript Engine from Ruby. V8 is Google's powerful JS engine that's used by Google Chrome. Using this C++ Ruby extension, you can run JS from Ruby land.

Note: this project just started, there is a lot to be done. There is no way that this code is production ready yet.

h2. Install

  # Download and build V8: http://code.google.com/apis/v8/build.html
  # Change to your ruby-v8 directory.
  # Need Ruby RICE to pimp up C++ compatibility:
  sudo gem install rice
  # Compile the V8 ruby module:
  ruby extconf.rb --with-v8-dir=$V8_BUILD_PATH

h2. Example: Hello World

  require 'V8'

  js_code = 

h2. TODO

• Proper exception handling
• Memory benchmarking, making sure things are garbage collected
• Ruby function and object callbacks