On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 13:12 -0800, Thomas R. Bruce wrote:
> About a year ago, someone surfaced on the list indicating that he was 
> working on a Ruby interface for swish-e.  I'll contact him 
> independently, but in the meantime ... does anyone know the status of 
> that project or a similar one?

Well, I know nothing of ruby.  However, failing all else maybe you can
generate basic ruby bindings using swig.  I created a fairly complete
Python module using swig in only a few minutes.  It is the swish-python
module in CVS:
  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/swishe/swish-python/


There are a few functions which still need to be manually wrapped with C
code.  I've not had the time to get back to that, though.  Swig appears
to have a problem automatically translating the datatypes relating to
the header and fuzzy word functions I documented in the initial import
log.  You can see here that the actual swig file is rather trivial:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/swishe/swish-python/swish.i?rev=1.1.1.1&view=auto


This generates a swish_wrap.c Ruby binding but I don't know how to
properly link a ruby module:
  swig -ruby -module swish swish.i

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