gorb

go<->rb

gorb provides a tool gorbgen to generate a native Ruby wrapper for a given Go package into the ext/<package> directory. The module name generated will be relative to the package directory you run gorbgen from.

Installing

$ go get -a github.com/lsegal/gorb/...
$ go install github.com/lsegal/gorb/cmd/gorbgen

Requirements

Currently, this project only works under Linux. See the Docker notes below for testing in a working environment.

Docker

You can use Docker to run the examples:

cd $GOPATH/github.com/lsegal/gorb
docker build -t lsegal/gorb .
sh start-docker.sh

Usage Example

Here is an example of running the built-in Test::Fib::Fibonacci package:

cd $GOPATH/github.com/lsegal/gorb
gorbgen -build test/fib
ruby ext/test/fib/test_fib.rb

Run Tests

To run acceptance tests:

$ ./test/test.sh

Tests pass if exit code is 0.

TODO

[ ] Support for slices, maps, complex pointer types.
[x] Support for basic slice types (string, bool, int, float64).
[x] Support for pass-by-value structs (partial value type support).
[x] Support for external packages (partial support for local packages).
[x] Support for error returns (as exceptions?).
[x] Support for blocks
[ ] Compilation support for other systems (Windows not supported).

Gorb

Install / Use

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