May 2009 - MacRuby-devel - lists.macosforge.org

Modal sheet question
by Alex Vollmer 14 May '09

14 May '09

I've been trying to port a small app I've written in MacRuby with a nib file over to HotCocoa. When the app launches a modal sheet is displayed asking the user for credentials. This is done by having both the main window and the credentials sheet in the MainMenu.nib file. In the applicationDidFinishLaunching method of the app delegate I call NSApp's beginSheet:modalForWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contextInfo: to display the sheet. This works like a champ with the in MacRuby with the nib. However in HotCocoa the sheet displays but is both detached from the main window and goes to the back as soon as you click on anything. On other mailing-lists I've seen the problem attributed to having the "Visible at launch" property enabled on the sheet window. But I'm trying to do it with HotCocoa and I can't, for the life of me, figure out the equivalent method call. I've toyed with loading the credentials window from a nib, but I'd like to do this with HotCocoa for demonstration purposes. If anyone has any ideas I'd love any insights or suggestions. Cheers, Alex ---- Musings & Notes — http://alexvollmer.com Track what you lend and borrow — http://moochbot.com

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quick experiment
by Matt Aimonetti 14 May '09

14 May '09

I decided to push to github a quick experiment I worked on the other night. http://github.com/mattetti/macruby-doc-app/tree/master It's simple, dirty and not fully working, but it queries the Cocoa API and displays the first result in a webkit view. My hope is to convert it to the new MVC framework and to maybe use a nib to define the UI. It should also let you pick which result to display instead of just picking the first one. Eventually, the app should parse the mappings to know what cocoa API to look someone would search for one of the HotCocoa helpers. Also, if we can get nokogiri FFI to work on 0.5 pretty soon, we could parse the result and display it differently. Anyways, I don't have much time so feel free to hack on this project if you feel like it. - Matt

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testing macruby/hotcocoa apps
by Matt Aimonetti 13 May '09

13 May '09

This is a very interesting topic and probably Eloy's favorite theme ;) Overall, the Ruby community strongly believes in testing, as a matter of fact we have so many testing frameworks I did not even test them all: test/unit, rspec, shoulda, bacon, context, cucumber etc.... Doing unit tests on your "models" isn't really a challenge, we probably all know how to do that and we have the tools to do so. The real challenge is to test expected behaviors at the highest level: the GUI. I talked with few very smart people during RailsConf and before that I talked to some Java friends of mine developing swing apps. It seems that everybody agrees that testing behavio(u)rs at the GUI level is really challenging. The approval testing approach is nice but it's kind of a pain since you need to validate every UI change. What would be totally awesome is a solution like Webrat + Cucumber http://cukes.info/ but for Cocoa apps developed using MacRuby. Think about it, would it be really nice if we could do something like that: Given I'm a valid twitter user When I enter my credentials Then I should see the last 50 tweets sent by my friends To do this kind of magic, we need to be able to parse the UI, the good thing is that thanks to MacRuby, we have an easy way to do full introspection on all the objects. So, in theory, we should be able to walk down the 'tree', starting at the NSApp level, pick a window, a view, an tableview, a row and check on its content after a button was clicked. This way, we can trigger UI components and see resulting behavior. We could even imagine some sort of selenium-type DSL to drive our tests in real time :) Before I get too excited, I'd like to hear what you guys think and what you believe you need to write better code? - Matt

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Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #54: build on Leopard fails on readline
by MacRuby 12 May '09

12 May '09

#54: build on Leopard fails on readline ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: edarocket@… | Owner: lsansonetti@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: blocker | Milestone: Component: MacRuby | Resolution: invalid Keywords: readline | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by eloy.de.enige@…): For the "clean" problem, could you file a new ticket? This one is a bit noisy and on another topic. Thanks -- Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/54#comment:15> MacRuby <http://macruby.org/>

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Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #54: build on Leopard fails on readline
by MacRuby 12 May '09

12 May '09

#54: build on Leopard fails on readline ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: edarocket@… | Owner: lsansonetti@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: blocker | Milestone: Component: MacRuby | Resolution: invalid Keywords: readline | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by eloy.de.enige@…): Oh hey, thanks for pointing me to it again. There's nothing wrong with that article I failed at properly looking at the article. I think the layout instantly reminded me of an article which suggested installing ruby into /usr which a lot of people did and consequently broke their installations. Mea culpa. So the problem of this ticket is an architecture problem. Normally when you just use "./configure --prefix=/usr/local" then the resulting binaries will only be for the current architecture it's running on. In this case i386. MacRuby however, is configure to be compiled for more architectures than just i386. This is for compatibility of your app on different machines and thus necessary. However, you cannot build something (MacRuby) for architectures which it's dependencies do not contain. To sum up; your dependencies need to at least include support for the architectures that the product is being build for. In this case readline was compiled without support for other archs than the current one, which is ok normally, but MacRuby can't be build for more than just i386 and so it fails. Solutions are build MacRuby for the current arch, or make sure MacRuby uses libs in /usr instead of /usr/local when compiling. I wouldn't go with the former, it will bite you later on when deploying. I hope this explains it a bit more. And I'll add this as a comment to the ticket so others won't be confused due to my error. Cheers, Eloy -- Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/54#comment:14> MacRuby <http://macruby.org/>

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#54: build on Leopard fails on readline
by K H 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, I couldn't build MacRuby and gave up, until I saw this post. I've followed both the Tiger and Leopard version of that article. Can you briefly explain what's wrong with that article or with readline? Thanks. On May 12, 2009, at 12:56 AM, macruby-devel- request(a)lists.macosforge.org wrote: > Ah yes, that dreaded article which destroyed so many installations?

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Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #54: build on Leopard fails on readline
by MacRuby 12 May '09

12 May '09

#54: build on Leopard fails on readline ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: edarocket@… | Owner: lsansonetti@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: blocker | Milestone: Component: MacRuby | Resolution: invalid Keywords: readline | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by edarocket@…): Here's the results from a fresh git clone and post-rake. Notice that ext/readline/extconf.h still remains after the clean. {{{ /usr/local/src/macruby(master) $ git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # .ext/ # .installed.list # array.o # bignum.o # blockinlining.o # bs.o # class.o # compar.o # compile.o # complex.o # cont.o # debug.o # dir.o # dln.o # dmyext.o # dtrace.h # enc/ascii.o # encoding.o # enum.o # enumerator.o # error.o # eval.o # ext/bigdecimal/Makefile # ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.o # ext/bigdecimal/extconf.h # ext/bigdecimal/mkmf.log # ext/continuation/Makefile # ext/continuation/continuation.o # ext/continuation/extconf.h # ext/curses/Makefile # ext/curses/curses.o # ext/curses/extconf.h # ext/curses/mkmf.log # ext/dbm/Makefile # ext/dbm/dbm.o # ext/dbm/extconf.h # ext/dbm/mkmf.log # ext/digest/Makefile # ext/digest/bubblebabble/Makefile # ext/digest/bubblebabble/bubblebabble.o # ext/digest/bubblebabble/extconf.h # ext/digest/digest.o # ext/digest/extconf.h # ext/digest/md5/Makefile # ext/digest/md5/extconf.h # ext/digest/md5/md5init.o # ext/digest/md5/md5ossl.o # ext/digest/md5/mkmf.log # ext/digest/rmd160/Makefile # ext/digest/rmd160/extconf.h # ext/digest/rmd160/mkmf.log # ext/digest/rmd160/rmd160init.o # ext/digest/rmd160/rmd160ossl.o # ext/digest/sha1/Makefile # ext/digest/sha1/extconf.h # ext/digest/sha1/mkmf.log # ext/digest/sha1/sha1init.o # ext/digest/sha1/sha1ossl.o # ext/digest/sha2/Makefile # ext/digest/sha2/extconf.h # ext/digest/sha2/mkmf.log # ext/digest/sha2/sha2.o # ext/digest/sha2/sha2init.o # ext/dl/Makefile # ext/dl/callback.h # ext/dl/cfunc.o # ext/dl/cptr.o # ext/dl/dl.o # ext/dl/extconf.h # ext/dl/handle.o # ext/dl/mkmf.log # ext/dl/win32/Makefile # ext/etc/Makefile # ext/etc/etc.o # ext/etc/extconf.h # ext/etc/mkmf.log # ext/fcntl/Makefile # ext/fcntl/extconf.h # ext/fcntl/fcntl.o # ext/fiber/Makefile # ext/fiber/extconf.h # ext/fiber/fiber.o # ext/gdbm/Makefile # ext/gdbm/mkmf.log # ext/iconv/Makefile # ext/iconv/extconf.h # ext/iconv/iconv.o # ext/iconv/mkmf.log # ext/io/wait/Makefile # ext/io/wait/extconf.h # ext/io/wait/mkmf.log # ext/io/wait/wait.o # ext/json/Makefile # ext/json/ext/generator/Makefile # ext/json/ext/generator/extconf.h # ext/json/ext/generator/generator.o # ext/json/ext/generator/mkmf.log # ext/json/ext/generator/unicode.o # ext/json/ext/parser/Makefile # ext/json/ext/parser/extconf.h # ext/json/ext/parser/mkmf.log # ext/json/ext/parser/parser.o # ext/json/ext/parser/unicode.o # ext/json/extconf.h # ext/nkf/Makefile # ext/nkf/extconf.h # ext/nkf/nkf.o # ext/openssl/Makefile # ext/openssl/extconf.h # ext/openssl/mkmf.log # ext/openssl/openssl_missing.o # ext/openssl/ossl.o # ext/openssl/ossl_asn1.o # ext/openssl/ossl_bio.o # ext/openssl/ossl_bn.o # ext/openssl/ossl_cipher.o # ext/openssl/ossl_config.o # ext/openssl/ossl_digest.o # ext/openssl/ossl_engine.o # ext/openssl/ossl_hmac.o # ext/openssl/ossl_ns_spki.o # ext/openssl/ossl_ocsp.o # ext/openssl/ossl_pkcs12.o # ext/openssl/ossl_pkcs5.o # ext/openssl/ossl_pkcs7.o # ext/openssl/ossl_pkey.o # ext/openssl/ossl_pkey_dh.o # ext/openssl/ossl_pkey_dsa.o # ext/openssl/ossl_pkey_ec.o # ext/openssl/ossl_pkey_rsa.o # ext/openssl/ossl_rand.o # ext/openssl/ossl_ssl.o # ext/openssl/ossl_ssl_session.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509attr.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509cert.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509crl.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509ext.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509name.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509req.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509revoked.o # ext/openssl/ossl_x509store.o # ext/pty/Makefile # ext/pty/extconf.h # ext/pty/mkmf.log # ext/pty/pty.o # ext/racc/cparse/Makefile # ext/racc/cparse/cparse.o # ext/racc/cparse/extconf.h # ext/racc/cparse/mkmf.log # ext/readline/Makefile # ext/readline/extconf.h # ext/readline/mkmf.log # ext/readline/readline.o # ext/ripper/Makefile # ext/ripper/eventids1.c # ext/ripper/eventids2table.c # ext/ripper/extconf.h # ext/ripper/mkmf.log # ext/ripper/ripper.c # ext/ripper/ripper.o # ext/ripper/ripper.y # ext/ripper/y.output # ext/sdbm/Makefile # ext/sdbm/_sdbm.o # ext/sdbm/extconf.h # ext/sdbm/init.o # ext/socket/Makefile # ext/socket/constants.h # ext/socket/extconf.h # ext/socket/mkmf.log # ext/socket/socket.o # ext/stringio/Makefile # ext/stringio/extconf.h # ext/stringio/stringio.o # ext/strscan/Makefile # ext/strscan/extconf.h # ext/strscan/strscan.o # ext/syck/Makefile # ext/syck/bytecode.o # ext/syck/emitter.o # ext/syck/extconf.h # ext/syck/gram.o # ext/syck/handler.o # ext/syck/implicit.o # ext/syck/mkmf.log # ext/syck/node.o # ext/syck/rubyext.o # ext/syck/syck.o # ext/syck/token.o # ext/syck/yaml2byte.o # ext/syslog/Makefile # ext/syslog/extconf.h # ext/syslog/mkmf.log # ext/syslog/syslog.o # ext/zlib/Makefile # ext/zlib/extconf.h # ext/zlib/mkmf.log # ext/zlib/zlib.o # file.o # framework/Info.plist # gc-stub.o # gc.o # hash.o # id.o # include/ruby/config.h # inits.o # insns.inc # insns_info.inc # io.o # iseq.o # lex.c # libmacruby-static.a # libmacruby.1.9.1.dylib # libmacruby.1.9.dylib # libmacruby.dylib # load.o # macruby # main.o # marshal.o # math.o # miniprelude.c # miniprelude.o # miniruby # missing/lgamma_r.o # node_name.inc # numeric.o # objc.o # object.o # opt_sc.inc # optinsn.inc # optunifs.inc # pack.o # parse.c # parse.o # prec.o # prelude.c # prelude.o # proc.o # process.o # random.o # range.o # rational.o # rbconfig.rb # re.o # regcomp.o # regenc.o # regerror.o # regexec.o # regparse.o # regsyntax.o # revision.h # ruby.o # set.o # signal.o # sprintf.o # st.o # string.o # struct.o # thread.o # time.o # transcode.o # util.o # variable.o # version.o # vm.inc # vm.o # vm_dump.o # vmtc.inc # y.tab.c nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) /usr/local/src/macruby(master) $ sudo rake clean Password: (in /usr/local/src/macruby) rm -f array.o rm -f bignum.o rm -f class.o rm -f compar.o rm -f complex.o rm -f dir.o rm -f enum.o rm -f enumerator.o rm -f error.o rm -f eval.o rm -f load.o rm -f proc.o rm -f file.o rm -f gc.o rm -f hash.o rm -f inits.o rm -f io.o rm -f marshal.o rm -f math.o rm -f numeric.o rm -f object.o rm -f pack.o rm -f parse.o rm -f process.o rm -f prec.o rm -f random.o rm -f range.o rm -f rational.o rm -f re.o rm -f regcomp.o rm -f regenc.o rm -f regerror.o rm -f regexec.o rm -f regparse.o rm -f regsyntax.o rm -f ruby.o rm -f set.o rm -f signal.o rm -f sprintf.o rm -f st.o rm -f string.o rm -f struct.o rm -f time.o rm -f transcode.o rm -f util.o rm -f variable.o rm -f version.o rm -f blockinlining.o rm -f compile.o rm -f debug.o rm -f iseq.o rm -f vm.o rm -f vm_dump.o rm -f thread.o rm -f cont.o rm -f id.o rm -f objc.o rm -f bs.o rm -f encoding.o rm -f main.o rm -f dln.o rm -f dmyext.o rm -f enc/ascii.o rm -f missing/lgamma_r.o rm -f prelude.o rm -f miniprelude.o rm -f gc-stub.o rm -f parse.c rm -f lex.c rm -f .installed.list rm -f Makefile rm -f insns.inc rm -f insns_info.inc rm -f node_name.inc rm -f opt_sc.inc rm -f optinsn.inc rm -f optunifs.inc rm -f vm.inc rm -f vmtc.inc ./miniruby -I./lib -I.ext/common -I./- -r./ext/purelib.rb ext/extmk.rb --make="/usr/bin/make" --dest-dir="" --extout=".ext" --mflags="" --make- flags="" --extension --extstatic -- clean cleaning bigdecimal cleaning continuation cleaning curses cleaning dbm cleaning digest cleaning digest/bubblebabble cleaning digest/md5 cleaning digest/rmd160 cleaning digest/sha1 cleaning digest/sha2 cleaning dl cleaning dl/win32 cleaning etc cleaning fcntl cleaning fiber cleaning gdbm cleaning iconv cleaning io/wait cleaning json cleaning json/ext/generator cleaning json/ext/parser cleaning nkf cleaning openssl cleaning pty cleaning racc/cparse cleaning readline cleaning ripper cleaning sdbm cleaning socket cleaning stringio cleaning strscan cleaning syck cleaning syslog cleaning zlib /usr/local/src/macruby(master) $ git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # .ext/ # dtrace.h # ext/bigdecimal/Makefile # ext/bigdecimal/extconf.h # ext/continuation/Makefile # ext/continuation/extconf.h # ext/curses/Makefile # ext/curses/extconf.h # ext/dbm/Makefile # ext/dbm/extconf.h # ext/digest/Makefile # ext/digest/bubblebabble/Makefile # ext/digest/bubblebabble/extconf.h # ext/digest/extconf.h # ext/digest/md5/Makefile # ext/digest/md5/extconf.h # ext/digest/rmd160/Makefile # ext/digest/rmd160/extconf.h # ext/digest/sha1/Makefile # ext/digest/sha1/extconf.h # ext/digest/sha2/Makefile # ext/digest/sha2/extconf.h # ext/dl/Makefile # ext/dl/callback.h # ext/dl/extconf.h # ext/dl/win32/Makefile # ext/etc/Makefile # ext/etc/extconf.h # ext/fcntl/Makefile # ext/fcntl/extconf.h # ext/fiber/Makefile # ext/fiber/extconf.h # ext/gdbm/Makefile # ext/iconv/Makefile # ext/iconv/extconf.h # ext/io/wait/Makefile # ext/io/wait/extconf.h # ext/json/Makefile # ext/json/ext/generator/Makefile # ext/json/ext/generator/extconf.h # ext/json/ext/parser/Makefile # ext/json/ext/parser/extconf.h # ext/json/extconf.h # ext/nkf/Makefile # ext/nkf/extconf.h # ext/openssl/Makefile # ext/openssl/extconf.h # ext/pty/Makefile # ext/pty/extconf.h # ext/racc/cparse/Makefile # ext/racc/cparse/extconf.h # ext/readline/Makefile # ext/readline/extconf.h # ext/ripper/Makefile # ext/ripper/extconf.h # ext/ripper/y.output # ext/sdbm/Makefile # ext/sdbm/extconf.h # ext/socket/Makefile # ext/socket/constants.h # ext/socket/extconf.h # ext/stringio/Makefile # ext/stringio/extconf.h # ext/strscan/Makefile # ext/strscan/extconf.h # ext/syck/Makefile # ext/syck/extconf.h # ext/syslog/Makefile # ext/syslog/extconf.h # ext/zlib/Makefile # ext/zlib/extconf.h # framework/Info.plist # include/ruby/config.h # libmacruby-static.a # libmacruby.1.9.1.dylib # libmacruby.1.9.dylib # libmacruby.dylib # macruby # miniprelude.c # miniruby # prelude.c # rbconfig.rb # revision.h # y.tab.c nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) }}} Replying to [comment:12 edarocket@…]: > Do take note that 'rake clean' did not clean out the compiled code from the source directory (if it is supposed to - seems like part of my difficulty). > -- Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/54#comment:13> MacRuby <http://macruby.org/>

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Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #54: build on Leopard fails on readline
by MacRuby 12 May '09

12 May '09

#54: build on Leopard fails on readline ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: edarocket@… | Owner: lsansonetti@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: blocker | Milestone: Component: MacRuby | Resolution: invalid Keywords: readline | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by edarocket@…): Do take note that 'rake clean' did not clean out the compiled code from the source directory (if it is supposed to - seems like part of my difficulty). Also, I did upgrade to Leopard from a fresh install. Migration Assistant copied in my custom software installs from /usr/local, which is desirable. I don't think System was touched, because Dan did teach me to always use /usr/local! http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/using_usr_local RyanR> Replying to [comment:11 eloy.de.enige@…]: > > Ah yes, that dreaded article which destroyed so many installations… > > So there are basically three options to fix this. You can do it by hand as you did, but this can still leave you with many broken stuff and will lead to hard to debug annoying issues. The best solution imo is a re- installation of at least the system. You can do an “archive & install” which means your user data will preserved but the system will be removed and re-installed. > > Good luck! > > PS: As stated before, this isn't an issue with MacRuby, so I'm labelling it as “invalid” -- Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/54#comment:12> MacRuby <http://macruby.org/>

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Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #54: build on Leopard fails on readline
by MacRuby 12 May '09

12 May '09

#54: build on Leopard fails on readline ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: edarocket@… | Owner: lsansonetti@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: blocker | Milestone: Component: MacRuby | Resolution: invalid Keywords: readline | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by eloy.de.enige@…): * status: reopened => closed * resolution: => invalid Comment: Replying to [comment:9 edarocket@…]: > Replying to [comment:8 eloy.de.enige@…]: > > Still fighting with this, wishing I could do all the cool, new stuff with MacRuby 0.4 and HotCocoa. > > You must realize that this is all leftover issues from following the Hivelogic article on installing Ruby on Rails on Tiger. Readline was recommended there: http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/ruby-rails-mongrel- mysql-osx > > Now with Leopard, it is not needed for installing Ruby from source, and it is a problem. Ah yes, that dreaded article which destroyed so many installations… So there are basically three options to fix this. You can do it by hand as you did, but this can still leave you with many broken stuff and will lead to hard to debug annoying issues. The best solution imo is a re- installation of at least the system. You can do an “archive & install” which means your user data will preserved but the system will be removed and re-installed. Good luck! PS: As stated before, this isn't an issue with MacRuby, so I'm labelling it as “invalid” -- Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/54#comment:11> MacRuby <http://macruby.org/>

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Re: [MacRuby-devel] testing macruby/hotcocoa apps
by Matt Aimonetti 12 May '09

12 May '09

Rich, did you try instruments? MacRuby apps work great with it. - Matt On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Rich Morin <rdm(a)cfcl.com> wrote: > Cool stuff. However, I'd like to go a bit further. > > Imagine a stack consisting of Cucumber, RSpec, MacRuby, and some > code which allows existing Cocoa apps to be exercised, monitored, > etc. (Adding the ability to introspect into Cocoa apps would be > a real win for detailed analysis.) > > -r > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm(a)cfcl.com > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 > > Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel(a)lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >

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