A Simple Matter of Programming

On a number of occasions, I’ve played around with manipulating the text of the Bible in Ruby. Tonight, for the first time, I did it the correct and obvious way, and was successful.

require 'rubygems'
require 'inline'
class Bible
  inline(:C) do |builder|
    builder.include ''
    builder.add_compile_flags '-x c++', '-lstdc++', '-I/opt/local/include/sword', '-L/opt/local/lib', '-lsword'
    builder.prefix %{
      using namespace sword;
    }
    builder.c %{
      char * text(char * ref) {
        SWMgr mgr = SWMgr();
        SWModule *kjv = mgr.getModule("KJV");
        kjv->setKey(ref);
        return kjv->RenderText();
      }
    }
  end
end
puts Bible.new.text("jn 3:16").gsub(/<[^>]*>/, '')

You need to sudo port install sword sword-bible-kjv first. This is going to be useful.