Is there a way to translate C code to Ruby?

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Published on 2010-04-02T10:28:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 10:33 UTC
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I'm sitting with massive amounts of legacy C code that needs to be converted to Ruby for a project.

I've seen Ruby to C translators online, but not the other way around. Would there be a simple way to approach this particular problem?

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