devel/ruby-ffi 1.17.4 NetBSD

== DESCRIPTION:

Ruby-FFI is a ruby extension for programmatically loading dynamic libraries, binding functions within them, and calling those functions from Ruby code. Moreover, a Ruby-FFI extension works without changes on Ruby and JRuby.

Discover why should you write your next extension using Ruby-FFI here[http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi/why-use-ffi].

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* It has a very intuitive DSL * It supports all C native types * It supports C structs (also nested), enums and global variables * It supports callbacks * It has smart methods to handle memory management of pointers and structs