Looking for tutorial/guides/blogposts about creating DSLs

[Ohm]

I’m currently trying to create a small DSL for a project of mine.

I’m looking for inspiration on how to fit stuff together. Anybody have links to great tutorials, guides, blogposts etc. about creating DSLs?

I’ve looked at Thoughtbots (https://robots.thoughtbot.com/writing-a-domain-specific-language-in-ruby), however I don’t find it quite fulfilling enough.

[danielpclark]

Are you looking to implement a full AST parser?

[Ohm]

What I’m trying to actually do, is write a DSL, which allows me to easily write C++ code, for including Fortran library calls in my C++ library. So yeah… there’s that…

I just want a more thorough tutorial/guide on how to structure your module, for easily DSL making in Ruby.

[danielpclark]

Just a few from a quick search

LambdaConf 2015 - Finally Tagless DSLs and MTL Joseph Abrahamson

RubyConf 2015 - s/regex/DSLs/: What Regex Teaches Us About DSL Design by Betsy Haibel

Wicked Good Ruby 2013 - Writing DSL's with Parslet by Jason Garber

LoneStarRuby Conf 2008 - Grammar a BNF like Ruby DSL Parsing 960x368 by: Eric Mahurin

Lone Star Ruby Conference 2011 More DSL, Less Pain by Evan Light

Garden City Ruby 2014 - Simple Ruby DSL Techniques: Big Project Impact!

Ruby Conf 2013 - Compilers For Free by Tom Stuart

[danielpclark]

Ruby’s has some of its own AST stuff like Ripper. Seattle.rb has ParseTree and RubyParser. Treetop is another.