rubypython

Is it in active development?

The short answer: No. I started rubypython a couple of years ago in connection with some work I was doing as part of a summer research job. I actively worked on it a for a period of a few months from that time onward. Since then I have moved on to other things more closely related to my chosen field, although I do still come back now and again to tinker with the project. Nonetheless, I am always happy to help debug the code if a problem should arise. So don’t hesitate to contact me if you have trouble. Also, should anyone wish to take on the main drive of the project and move forward with it, send me an email and we’ll talk.

What

RubyPython is a C bridge between Ruby and Python with a Ruby interface. It’s aim is to make the power of the Python’s great standard library available to Ruby programmers from within Ruby.

Installing

To install execute the following:

sudo gem install rubypython

Don’t worry if you got some ugly output from RDOC and RI.

The Basics

Check out the RDOC pages at http://rubypython.rubyforge.org/rdoc

I have test the system on Mac OS 10.5 and Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04. If anyone has issues with another setup let me know and I’ll do what I can.

Forum

http://groups.google.com/group/rubypython

How to submit patches

Read the 8 steps for fixing other people’s code and for section 8b: Submit patch to Google Groups, use the Google Group above.

You can fetch the source from:

http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=6737

git clone git://rubyforge.org/rubypython.git

or pick it up from github (it’s a mirror)

 git clone git://github.org/sentient6/rubypython.git

Build and test instructions

cd rubypython
rake test
rake install_gem

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email to Zach Raines email via the forum

Zach Raines, 8th October 2009
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