accessing PowerLoom from Ruby?

Rich Morin <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:21:23 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.ai.powerloom
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I'm interested in accessing PowerLoom from Ruby.  I can
think of a couple of Ways To Do It, as:

  Have my Ruby script start up an interactive PowerLoom session,
  talking to it via a pair of sockets.

  Mix JRuby into PowerLoom's Java implementation.

The socket notion seems a bit kludgy and error-prone; the JRuby
notion is far beyond my Java-fu.  Can anyone suggest a Better
Way To Do It?

-r
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