Differences between ruby ffi module and the fiddle module

Question

Except the fact that Fiddle is a module from the standard library of ruby and that ruby-ffi is an external module, what are the main differences between them.

More specificaly, what could be the reasons that lead you to use one over the other? (except the fact that one create a dependancy to an external gem).

Dmitry Sokurenko · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-02T20:18:34.783

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Basically ruby-ffi is dead and not maintained any more, so just go with Fiddle.

Update: Seems that ruby-ffi is still alive, so it can be used as well as the Fiddle module.

edited Dec 02 '15 at 20:18

answered Nov 05 '15 at 22:32

Dmitry Sokurenko

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ruby-ffi is maintained at all. This is wrong answer. See https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commits/master. – retro Dec 02 '15 at 14:52
Oh, yes, that seems to be true, I believe it stuck with migration to ruby 2.0 a couple years ago. – Dmitry Sokurenko Dec 02 '15 at 20:17

Differences between ruby ffi module and the fiddle module

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