ruby-ffi
http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi
Ruby-FFI is a ruby extension for programmatically loading dynamic libraries, binding functions within them, and calling those functions from Ruby code. Moreover, a Ruby-FFI extension works without changes on Ruby and JRuby. Discover why should you write your next extension using Ruby-FFI here.
It has a very intuitive DSL
It supports all C native types
It supports C structs (also nested), enums and global variables
It supports callbacks
It has smart methods to handle memory management of pointers and structs
require 'ffi' module MyLib extend FFI::Library ffi_lib 'c' attach_function :puts, [ :string ], :int end MyLib.puts 'Hello, World using libc!'
For less minimalistic and more sane examples you may look at:
You need a sane building environment in order to compile the extension.
From rubyforge:
[sudo] gem install ffi
or from the git repository on github:
git clone git://github.com/ffi/ffi.git cd ffi rake gem:install
See LICENSE file.
The following people have submitted code, bug reports, or otherwide contributed to the success of this project:
Alban Peignier <free at alban.peignier.fr> Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net> Andrea Fazzi <alcacoop at andrea.fazzi.it> Andreas Niederl <rico32@gmx.net> Andrew Cholakian <andrew@andrewvc.com> Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org> Brian Candler <B.Candler.com> Brian D. Burns <burns180@gmail.com> Bryan Kearney <bkearney@redhat.com> Charlie Savage <cfis@zerista.com> Chikanaga Tomoyuki <nagachika00@gmail.com> Hongli Lai <hongli@phusion.nl> Ian MacLeod <ian@nevir.net> Jake Douglas <jake@shiftedlabs.com> Jean-Dominique Morani <jdmorani@mac.com> Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@hinegardner.org> Jesús García Sáez <blaxter@gmail.com> Joe Khoobyar <joe@ankhcraft.com> Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> KISHIMOTO, Makoto <ksmakoto@dd.iij4u.or.jp> Kim Burgestrand <kim@burgestrand.se> Lars Kanis <kanis@comcard.de> Luc Heinrich <luc@honk-honk.com> Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> Matijs van Zuijlen <matijs@matijs.net> Matthew King <automatthew@gmail.com> Mike Dalessio <gmail at mike.dalessio.com> NARUSE, Yui <naruse@airemix.jp> Park Heesob <phasis@gmail.com> Shin Yee <shinyee@speedgocomputing.com> Stephen Bannasch <gmail at stephen.bannasch.com> Suraj N. Kurapati <sunaku@gmail.com> Sylvain Daubert <laposte at sylvain.daubert.net> Victor Costan beoran@gmail.com ctide <christide@christide.com> emboss <Martin.googlemail at Bosslet.com> hobophobe <unusualtears@gmail.com> meh <meh@paranoici.org> postmodern <gmail at postmodern.mod3.com> wycats@gmail.com <wycats@gmail.com>