Nautilus extensions written in Ruby

[ghost]

I'd like develop some Nautilus extension in Ruby (not in C or Python). I wonder if I could do that with ruby-gir-ffi. I think I could use Nautilus objects but I don't know if I would need some kind of C-to-Ruby glue code.

Your project is great! Thank you!

Greetings.

[mvz]

Hello pmros, thanks for the kind words.

I've taken a look at how the Python extensions for Nautilus work, and my conclusion is as follows:

• Some glue code is needed because Nautilus finds extensions by loading C libraries. But, like the Python case, this can be generic for all Ruby Nautilus extensions.
• This glue code will load the Ruby runtime and the Ruby file.
• The classes defined in the Ruby file will need to have a GType associated with them. GirFFI should be able to handle this, but I haven't tried it yet.
• Nautilus will have to be told about the classes defined in the file. This can be done by the glue code, and probably also from Ruby.
• The Nautilus classes can be used from GirFFI, at least for Nautilus 3.

The biggest hurdle would probably be creating the glue code. That's definitely something for a separate project.

Regards.