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h1. Introduction

FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. This project is ruby-ffi, an FFI implementation for Ruby.

• Why use FFI - Some good reasons to start playing with Ruby-FFI
• Core Concepts - Fundamental high-level FFI concepts
• Basic usage - Basic usage concept examples underlying Ruby-FFI
• Examples - Real-world(ish) examples
• Windows Examples - Real-world(ish) examples using the Windows API
• Presentations - Talks and Presentations about FFI and related projects

h1. Help

• "Mailing list":http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-ffi - Ask for support here!
• "rdoc":http://rdoc.info/projects/ffi/ffi - detailed documentation here
• Loading Libraries - Tips on using ffi_lib.
• Enums - Using enums with FFI
• Structs - Using structs with FFI
• Pointers - Using pointers (including Strings) with FFI
• Types - A list of the supported types (like @:int@, etc.)
• Binary Data - Handling binary data (e.g. Ruby Strings of Encoding::BINARY) with FFI

h1. Initiatives

• Projects Using FFI - A list of projects using FFI
• Proposal for standard 1.0 API - consolidating the lessons learned