rcee_isolated 0.1.0 → 0.2.0

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data/README.md

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+# RCEE::Isolated
 
 This gem is part of the Ruby C Extensions Explained project at https://github.com/flavorjones/ruby-c-extensions-explained
+
+## Summary
+
+This is the simplest viable C extension gem. It's named "Isolated" it's entirely self-contained, and doesn't call any external libraries.
+
+You might choose to write a C extension like this as a performance optimization if you have some CPU-intensive work to do. The BCrypt gem is a good example of this kind of C extension -- it's iterating over cryptographic math which is simply faster in C than it would be in Ruby.
+
+## Details
+
+This gem's C code is located in `ext/isolated/isolated.c` and includes this singleton method:
+
+``` C
+static VALUE
+rb_isolated_extension_class_do_something(VALUE self)
+{
+  /* todo: perform CPU-intensive operation */
+  return rb_str_new_cstr("something has been done");
+}
+
+void
+Init_isolated(void)
+{
+  rb_mRCEE = rb_define_module("RCEE");
+  rb_mIsolated = rb_define_module_under(rb_mRCEE, "Isolated");
+  rb_cIsolatedExtension = rb_define_class_under(rb_mIsolated, "Extension", rb_cObject);
+  rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cIsolatedExtension, "do_something",
+                             rb_isolated_extension_class_do_something, 0);
+}
+```
+
+The `extconf.rb` is as simple as it gets:
+
+``` ruby
+require "mkmf"
+
+create_makefile("rcee/isolated/isolated")
+```
+
+"mkmf" is short for MakeMakefile, a Ruby module that's shipped with the standard library. It defines "create_makefile" as well as a handful of other methods for advanced configuration, some of which we'll see in later examples.
+
+The "create_makefile" method is what actually writes the recipe for _compiling_ and _linking_. Because we haven't configured anything, it's going to adopt a set of reasonable defaults.
+
+The output `Makefile` is long and complex, but the recipe it implements is relatively simple and does something like:
+
+``` sh
+# `create_makefile` recipe is something like this
+
+# compile phase:
+gcc -c -I/path/to/ruby/include isolated.c -o isolated.o
+
+# link phase:
+gcc -shared -L/path/to/ruby/lib -lruby -lc -lm isolated.o -o isolated.so
+```
+
+That final shared library, `isolated.so`, is loaded like any other Ruby file, via `require` in `lib/rcee/isolated.rb`:
+
+``` ruby
+require_relative "isolated/isolated"
+```
+
+## What Can Go Wrong
+
+1. Users don't have the compiler toolchain installed (`gcc`, `ld`, `stdio.h`, `libc.so`, etc.)
+2. Users don't have the ruby development files installed (`ruby.h`, etc.)
+3. Users try to use the compiled extension on a different minor version of Ruby, a different CPU architecture, or a different operating system.

data/Rakefile

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 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 require "bundler/gem_tasks"
-require "rake/testtask"
 require "rubygems/package_task"
+require "rake/testtask"
+require "rake/extensiontask"
 
 rcee_isolated_spec = Bundler.load_gemspec("rcee_isolated.gemspec")
 Gem::PackageTask.new(rcee_isolated_spec).define
@@ -13,12 +14,10 @@ Rake::TestTask.new(:test) do |t|
   t.test_files = FileList["test/**/*_test.rb"]
 end
 
-require "rake/extensiontask"
-
-task build: :compile
-
 Rake::ExtensionTask.new("isolated") do |ext|
   ext.lib_dir = "lib/rcee/isolated"
 end
 
-task default: %i[clobber compile test]
+task default: [:clobber, :compile, :test]
+
+CLEAN.add("{ext,lib}/**/*.{o,so}", "pkg")

data/lib/rcee/isolated/version.rb

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 module RCEE
   module Isolated
-    VERSION = "0.1.0"
+    VERSION = "0.2.0"
   end
 end

metadata

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 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: rcee_isolated
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.1.0
+  version: 0.2.0
 platform: ruby
 authors:
 - Mike Dalessio
 autorequire: 
 bindir: exe
 cert_chain: []
-date: 2021-09-02 00:00:00.000000000 Z
+date: 2021-09-10 00:00:00.000000000 Z
 dependencies: []
 description: Part of a project to explain how Ruby C extensions work.
 email:
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
     - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
       version: '0'
 requirements: []
-rubygems_version: 3.2.15
+rubygems_version: 3.2.22
 signing_key: 
 specification_version: 4
 summary: Example gem demonstrating a basic C extension.