PyRuby - Some Ruby for your Python

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30 points·thiagopnts··11 comments

I did this project for real back in the day, called Rupy[1] which would run the Python VM in the Ruby VM. It was was a fork of RubyPython, which demonstrated the concept.

Eventually the main developer resumed development and I merged all my code in his repo, which is still active[2].

Check it out it works pretty well.

[1] https://github.com/steeve/rupy

[2] https://bitbucket.org/raineszm/rubypython

That's Python running inside Ruby, while the OP was (ostensibly) Ruby inside Python.

Rython [1] purports to run Ruby inside Python, although it hasn't been updated since 2009. Unlike RubyPython it doesn't actually embed a VM. Instead, it looks like it starts up an XML-RPC server on the Ruby side and the Python side acts as a client.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rython/

I'm so glad I looked at the source, it forever changed my life.

Such disruptive tech.

Wow. Truly a beautiful feat of engineering. This leverages capabilities I didn't even know python had.

They are both great languages, but how do we benefit by smushing them together?

I won't spoil it, but I will say one thing: this is a marvel of software engineering. Bravo.

Not exactly the same idea ;) but my ErlPort [1] project allows to use Erlang as a router between Ruby and Python processes.

[1] http://erlport.org

Slow news day on HN?

This is exactly what I was hoping it was.

Hahaha!

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