October 2011 - MacRuby-devel - lists.macosforge.org

ASIHTTPRequest examples
by Alex Heaton 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there any example apps that use ASIHTTPRequest<http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/> that I might be able to have a look at?

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Configuring IDE to use MacRuby?
by Jean-Denis MUYS 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

Hi, Out of curiosity, I tried to set up a few IDEs other than Xcode to use for MacRuby development, and I have mostly failed. I would appreciate any advice/suggestion. - TextMate: Success. I found some rather complex recipes on the net. Mine is much simpler: go to Preferences > Advanced > Shell Variables and add a shell variable named TM_RUBY with value of '/usr/local/bin/macruby'. - Komodo IDE: Failure. I chose Preferences > Languages > Ruby, clicked the "Browse" button and selected macruby in '/usr/local/bin/'. Komodo IDE accepted it, but reported the following error: "The Ruby debugger extension does not work with the version of Ruby select or that is on your path. You need to use Ruby version 1.8.2 or later. You can get Ruby from the Ruby home page at http://www.ruby-lang.org" I suspected their debugger extension expects the ruby debugger to be named rubyd and not macrubyd. So I dup'ed macrubyd and renamed the copy to rubyd. However, this didn't improve the situation. My Google fu failed to locate any useful suggestion on the net. - RubyMine: Failure. I chose Preferences > Ruby SDK and Gems, clicked "Add SDK…" > "Specify other" and chose /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.10/usr/bin/macruby, as per some instructions I found on the net. However, RubyMine then displays an error message in large friendly red letters: "Rubygems not installed for SDK: ruby-1.9.2-p0. Please download and install rubygems." Any suggestion? Or is there no other working option than Xcode and TextMate? Thanks, Jean-Denis PS: I am really a Ruby beginner, and I am not used to Ruby configurations, gems and the like. I will gladly take suggestions to RTFM.

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MacRuby app store guide
by Elliot Temple 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

http://curi.us/1538-macruby-and-the-mac-app-store Got my game in the app store. Hope these notes help others get things working too. -- Elliot Temple http://beginningofinfinity.com/

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Xcode 4.2/IB and MacRuby: Works!
by steve ross 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

In case nobody was watching… So, today I downloaded Xcode 4.2, hoping IB would recognize outlets and actions in MacRuby classes. I also downloaded the newest version of MacRuby (0.12) from the nightly builds. Now, my outlets and actions (as defined in my Ruby classes) are recognized in IB. Hurrah!!!

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MacRuby O'Reilly book final e-version finally available
by Matt Aimonetti 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

I just noticed that what looks like the final pdf/epub/mobi version of MacRuby book is now available to people who already bought the book or for new customers. If you already bought the book, get your update from: https://members.oreilly.com/account/emedia/index Otherwise the book is for sale on O'Reilly's site: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920000723.do and Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449380379/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mer… The print version will probably be available very very soon now. Sorry for the wait and please, try to leave an Amazon review. Thanks, - Matt

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brace yourselves, 0.11 is coming!
by Laurent Sansonetti 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi guys, No it isn't a joke, 0.11 is really coming out! I uploaded an installer, please give it a try with your project and let us know if it works, or not. https://github.com/downloads/MacRuby/MacRuby/MacRuby%200.11.zip In the meantime I'm preparing the release notes. If everything goes well, maybe 0.11 can see the light this week! GitHub's master branch is now using the 0.12 version number (which, hopefully, will turn into 1.0). Laurent

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Macruby+Cocoa skillswap
by Alex Heaton 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi again, I'm wondering if anyone is interested in helping me out with a few cocoa/macruby tasks as I build my first osx application? I'm an experienced rails developer and in return I'd be happy to help out with one of your projects.

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Re: [MacRuby-devel] Macruby+Cocoa skillswap
by Igor Evsukov 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi Alex, My name is Igor Evsukov, I'm Cocoa and Cocoa-Touch developer and currently develop my new project using a MacRuby. If You have any questions about OS X development, please feel free to ask me. Best, Igor http://igor-on-software.posterous.com

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[ANN] HotCocoa gets reheated
by Mark Rada 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hey all, I have some wonderful news. Over the past several months I've been working on a fork of HotCocoa. With the help of other contributors (Watson, Isaac, Jake, Bernard, Francesco, Jason, and all the past contributors), it is now time for a new release of HotCocoa. The best part is that it will be an official release, with rubygems and everything! You can install it from rubygems right now: sudo macgem install hotcocoa It is recommended that you use MacRuby 0.11, but MacRuby 0.10 should still work. For those of you who don't know, HotCocoa is a MacRuby library that aims to simply the creation and configuration of Cocoa objects when creating Mac apps. You can use it inside of an existing MacRuby Xcode project, but HotCocoa includes tools to heelp you build applications entirely without Xcode. The source is currently hosted on Github at: https://github.com/ferrous26/hotcocoa The source includes the point form list of changes since HotCocoa 0.5, but I've included a long form of the changes for interested parties: * New application builder to work with MacRuby 0.10+ The old application builder had statically set itself to compile 32/64-bit fat binaries, and when MacRuby deprecated 32-bit support this begin causing some problems. The old application builder has been fixed and refactored, but it has also been deprecated in favour of a new application builder that works with appspecs. * New application templates now use an appspec, similar to a gemspec An appspec is much easier to use and much more flexible than the old config.yml file. It is a ruby object, just like a gemspec, and can be much more dynamic. It also offers quite a few more configuration options than config.yml. Appspec is the future, and config.yml is now deprecated. You can learn more about appspecs from the documentation: http://rdoc.info/github/ferrous26/hotcocoa/master/Application/Specification, or from the template file: https://github.com/ferrous26/hotcocoa/blob/master/template/__APPLICATION_NA…. We are also looking for feedback regarding the new appspec format, there is still a lot of room for growing and maturing and community feedback will help guide the process. * Lazier loading for mappings (may break custom mappings!) HotCocoa used to load the all mappings and simply not evaluate them until the requisite framework was loaded; HotCocoa now evaluates the mapping right away but does not load the mapping until the requisite framework is loaded. This was done to simplify the code base, and it will lower the memory foot print for most apps as more mappings are added to HotCocoa. The trade off is that you will need to be responsible for loading your custom mappings yourself, which you were probably already doing. * API documention (~67% coverage so far) API documentation is an ongoing effort, but most of the important pieces have helpful comments that should make learning/using HotCocoa easier. You can view it online: http://rdoc.info/github/ferrous26/hotcocoa/master/frames * Regression tests (< 67% coverage so far) Also an ongoing effort, coverage is not great, but its not bad either. The example apps are still tested out between non trivial changes. * Updating and porting of the tutorial documentation (~40% complete) Along with the API documentation, you will see that some of the HotCocoa documentation from the MacRuby website has been ported and updated. It is important to note that you should refer to the updated version of the documentation if it is available. * HotCocoa now works when compiled You can use the rubygems-compile gem to compile HotCocoa successfully. When compiled, HotCocoa will load at least ~2.5 times faster, but as much as ~5 times faster. * HotCocoa is now leaner Various small optimizations and refactorings have gone into HotCocoa 0.6; this is also an ongoing effort. Faster boot and run times is a long term goal. * Various bug fixes A few bugs were squashed during the refactoring. Not all of which were implemented by myself, so HotCocoa should be more stable than ever. :) * 4 new mappings: * bonjour_service => NSNetService * bonjour_browser => NSNetServiceBrowser * line => NSBezierPath * tracking_area => NSTrackingArea * 2 graphics improvements: * Image class works with more image types (BMP, JPEG2000) * Image class can save images But there is still a lot more that can be done for the future; HotCocoa is a very ambitious project: - Cocoa Auto Layout - HotCocoa-Graphics update - Improvements to the tools, specifically project management, configuration, and testing - More test coverage for HotCocoa - More API documentation - Port the remaining documents and tutorials - And more! Cheers, Mark

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macruby_deploy and nokogiri - LoadError on some mac
by Francis Chong 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hi I tried to use macruby_deploy to embed my macruby based mac app with gems (/usr/local/bin/macruby_deploy --compile --embed --gem nokogiri) The resulting app run fine on my machine. However, on many of our testers, the app failed with "LoadError". It seems nokogiri depends on a libiconv with different version. (nokogiri.bundle requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0) We cant ask our user to install each of those library. Are there any way I can build the app embed the correct version of libiconv? Logs: dlopen(/Applications/ChineseIdiom.app/Contents/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.10/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.2/nokogiri/nokogiri.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib 18/05/2011 10:44:53 PM [0x0-0x157b57a].hk.ignition.mac.ChineseIdiom[1576] Referenced from: /Applications/ChineseIdiom.app/Contents/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.10/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.2/nokogiri/nokogiri.bundle 18/05/2011 10:44:53 PM [0x0-0x157b57a].hk.ignition.mac.ChineseIdiom[1576] Reason: Incompatible library version: nokogiri.bundle requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0 - /Applications/ChineseIdiom.app/Contents/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.10/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.2/nokogiri/nokogiri.bundle (LoadError) 18/05/2011 10:44:53 PM [0x0-0x157b57a].hk.ignition.mac.ChineseIdiom[1576] from /Applications/ChineseIdiom.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:20:in `<main>' 18/05/2011 10:44:53 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[191] ([0x0-0x157b57a].hk.ignition.mac.ChineseIdiom[1576]) Exited with exit code: 1 Thanks Francis Chong Ignition Soft http://ignition.hk

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