FFI: How Ruby Talks to C

March 25, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews Ruby is a high-level language. C is a low-level language. At some point, every serious Ruby application needs to cross that boundary. Maybe you need a cryptography library. Maybe a signal processing engine. Maybe a hardware interface. Maybe raw performance on a hot path. There are two ways to … Continue reading FFI: How Ruby Talks to C