Hey John,

I would happily spend some time on MacRuby, but I have no idea where to start.

Anyway I was wondering whether you could give me a quick run down on
how to start investigating learning and experimenting with the
experimental branch.

Don't start with the experimental branch, it's a work in progress and unless you work on a very specific area under the supervision of Laurent, I think you should wait a little bit.

I would like to start as simple as possible - but down the track one particular part that i would be interested in is tracing the dispatch from bridgesupport method to opengl function.

Once the experimental branch will have the cocoa integration I'm sure this is something we can help you working on. (and by 'we' I really mean: Laurent :p)

Speaking of which is it you that cannot make it? Pity if so - I was looking fwd to your talk as I have some very flaky code which interfaces with some traditional (ie non REST) webservices - I was hoping for some (yet more) tips ;-).

Unfortunately, there was a last minute change and I won't be able to make it to the conf. However, I'm still planning on preparing some documentation on integrating MacRuby apps with remote/local web applications. You mentioned non-REST webservices, what do you have to deal with? SOAP, XML-RPC, something else?

On a different note, I can think of a few things that you could do to help:
- work on MacRuby/HotCocoa examples, I know you already ported a lot of samples from various sources, but some original samples to show various technics would def. be helpful.
- write articles for the blog (I believe you already started)
- work on HotCocoa (add mappings, suggest new APIs, study a way to test hotcocoa code (hotcocoa itself as well as developer's code))
- port the major ruby C extensions to MacRuby (using C or obj-c)

I'll try to talk with Laurent and list the things he would like people to work on. Once we have a concrete list, maybe we can organize ourselves in pairs/small groups and start tackling these tasks.

- Matt

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM, John Shea <johnmacshea@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Matt,

you said:
> If you were thinking about helping out, be reassured, help is always welcome ;)

I would happily spend some time on MacRuby, but I have no idea where to start.
I downloaded the experimental branch - was not really sure to go from
there but tried running some simple ruby code with the miniruby
executable - it hung so I assume I was doing something wrong.

Anyway I was wondering whether you could give me a quick run down on
how to start investigating learning and experimenting with the
experimental branch. Any links would be helpful. I would like to start
as simple as possible - but down the track one particular part that i
would be interested in is tracing the dispatch from bridgesupport
method to opengl function.

I can't really spend much time until after the Amsterdam conference however.

Speaking of which is it you that cannot make it? Pity if so - I was
looking fwd to your talk as I have some very flakey code which
interfaces with some traditional (ie non REST) webservices - I was
hoping for some (yet more) tips ;-).

Cheers,
J
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