Ruby >= 1.9 also has a built in libffi wrapper, "Fiddle"[1], which can replicate basic Ruby-FFI functionality with some glue code[2]. There aren't many examples

Ruby >= 1.9 also has a built in libffi wrapper, "Fiddle"[1], which can replicate basic Ruby-FFI functionality with some glue code[2]. There aren't many examples, but I've successfully used it to call Windows API (GDI+) functions. [1] http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/fiddle/rdoc/Fiddle.html http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/fiddle/rdoc/Fiddle.h... [2] http://www.slideshare.net/tenderlove/hidden-gems-of-ruby-19/134 http://www.slideshare.net/tenderlove/hidden-gems-of-ruby-19/...