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Lars Kanis edited this page Sep 29, 2023
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FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface.
This project is ruby-ffi, an FFI implementation for Ruby.
- Why use FFI – Some good reasons to start playing with Ruby-FFI
- Features at a Glance
- Core Concepts – Fundamental high-level FFI concepts
- Basic usage – Basic usage concept examples underlying Ruby-FFI
- Examples – Real-world(ish) examples
- Windows Examples – Real-world(ish) examples using the Windows API
- Presentations – Talks and Presentations about FFI and related projects
- Loading Libraries – Tips on using `ffi_lib`, see also Using Multiple and Alternate Libraries
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Types – A list of the supported types (like
:int, etc.) - Enums – Using enums with FFI
- Structs – Using structs with FFI
- Pointers – Using pointers (including Strings) with FFI
- Binary Data – Handling binary data (e.g. Ruby Strings of Encoding::BINARY) with FFI
- Callbacks – Using function pointers to call Ruby code from C
- Functions with multiple signatures
- Ractors – Using FFI in Ractors of Ruby-3.1+
- rdoc – detailed documentation here
- Mailing list – Ask for support here!
- Using ruby ffi on Os X with mixed architectures, universal binaries
- Proposal for standard 1.0 API – consolidating the lessons learned
- Projects Using FFI – A list of projects using FFI