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I want to know if there is a way to integrate a library written in Python into my Rails application. I have always used gems to implement outside libraries so I have no idea how to do this(yet).
Is it possible to use this Python library?
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The two languages have no similarities allowing one to run code from the other, so there's no way to call a library from one with the other directly.
To do so, you would need to make your script into a proper Python module, start the bridge when the Rails app starts, then use RubyPython. import to get a reference to your module into your Ruby code. The examples on the gem's GitHub page are quite simple, and should be sufficient for your purpose.
This is mostly what you want:
Calling Python from Ruby
I've looked into this question before and, excepting the Heroku deploy, the answer was "easily! check this out". (On a fun note, there's a gem to let you embed Perl code in a Ruby file)
However, while I can't seem to find it right now, I remember reading that deploying both to Heroku required a custom buildpac, since one won't normally include the binaries necessary for the other.
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