Can you in any way interface Ruby Gems with PHP, Python, etc.?

Posted by Chad Johnson on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Chad Johnson
Published on 2010-04-06T21:05:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 21:33 UTC
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Stupid question, and forgive me for asking, but someone is asking me, and I am not a super expert with Rails yet.

Suppose I have some Rails gem I write. Now suppose a customer has some other framework, like Django or CakePHP, and I want to provide the functionality offered by my gem (eg. CRUD for automotive data) to them as a module in their framework. Could I somehow make it so they could interface my gem with Django or CakePHP?

Obviously I could do something with some API magic--and I'll probably end up going that route. But I just want to know whether there is a way to directly interface with Gems from a non-Rails application.

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