Comment by hardwaregeek

Is Ripper dead? I attempted to do some minor work on Ripper and it was profoundly painful. My explanation for Ripper boiled down to a domain specific language in parse.y comments that gets translated into C via a very confusing Ruby script, which manually calls Ruby VM functions, that wait for it, are dynamically defined. This constructs a parse tree. If Ripper is still getting maintained, I'm seriously impressed.