Sneak preview: Writing Ruby gem native extensions in Rust – Brian Kung

If this post tickles your fancy, check out the follow-up post: Writing a Rust gem from scratchIn December 2021, Ian Ker-Seymer (@ianks) submitted a pull request to add a CargoBuilder class for handling Rust code in gems, enabling native extensions in Rust!I was so excited, I had to try it out, even though it hadn’t been merged yet. A lot of maintainers are showing interest and pitching in, so I have high hopes for it being merged into main. So here are my notes on writing a Rust gem extension.