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How to Write C Extensions for Ruby Gems

December 20, 2021

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

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C extensions are a powerful tool to connect Ruby code with C libraries that can perform much faster than a pure Ruby counterpart.

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