> I don't really know much about python, but how is the C API? Because as nice as Ruby may be as a language, I wouldn't want to touch the C API with a laser poi

> I don't really know much about python, but how is the C API? Because as nice as Ruby may be as a language, I wouldn't want to touch the C API with a laser pointer. You might want to check out SWIG[0] then. It can definitely help integrate C/C++ libraries into Ruby (as well as a dozen other languages) without having to work directly with the host language's C API. HTH 0 - http://swig.org/ http://swig.org/