Ruby inline assembler

[nathell]

Been doing something similar for Clojure:

https://github.com/nathell/lithium

http://blog.danieljanus.pl/blog/2012/05/14/lithium/

[api]

This is like putting NOS on a school bus.

[JonnieCache]

That's ironic because it was written on a bus.

See the following rubycon talk, "worst idea ever!" which covers this and several other even more horrendously ill-advised gems:

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/198-rubyconf2009-worst-ideas...

It includes a way to rescue from segfaults, which goes quite nicely with the inline assembly :)

If you are a rubyist you should watch this. It's hilarious. If you think this wilson gem is crazy wait until you see the other shit they get up to.

[kgo]

I wrote a similar thing a while ago for python:

http://www.grant-olson.net/python/pyasm

It even mapped all the exported symbols from the python API so you could do stuff like:

    CALL PySys_WriteStdout "Hello, World!\n\0"

About every three months I get an email from someone where I have to explain it was a proof-of-concept and never intended for production use.

[jbarnette]

My favorite thing about this library is that it parses the NASM manual: https://github.com/seattlerb/wilson/blob/master/lib/wilson.r...

[donavanm]

You guys do understand this is a joke, right? It's a (cool) example of stupid things that you can get up to in ruby. See the ruby con talk for other examples. Enterprise Ruby is my personal favorite.

[tzumby]

The rdoc for enterprise ruby is hilarious (https://github.com/tenderlove/enterprise#synopsis)

"Let’s convert that crappy ruby code to XML"

[drv]

Pretty neat hack.

However, it's a bit odd that it parses the intended-for-humans NASM documentation instead of the machine-readable insns.dat that NASM actually uses to generate opcodes: http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git/blob/HEAD:/insns.dat

[helper]

Cool. Looks similar to ronin: https://github.com/ronin-ruby/ronin-asm.

I'm curious if there are equivalent tools for doing this sort of thing for other cpu families. Specifically, what do people use for MIPS and ARM architectures?

[sokrates]

What's different (from a quick look at ronin) is that this actually runs the assembled code within the currently running ruby interpreter. That's a lot more than a DSL for creating assembly.

[artellectual]

Hats off to you! This is simply amazing!

[lawl]

I didn't write it. I just found it. Maybe should have mentioned that. But I thought it was clear. Sorry.