[MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #219: Feature: ObjC <=> Ruby Proxy interface

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#219: Feature: ObjC <=> Ruby Proxy interface
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 Reporter:  ash@…                        |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…        
     Type:  enhancement                  |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  blocker                      |   Milestone:                       
Component:  MacRuby                      |    Keywords:                       
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 Working with MacRuby is nice, but I saw an interesting feature of another
 ruby project called Johnson. Its a javascript bridge for ruby, it
 literally ties Spidermonkey into the Ruby runtime and lets you do
 everything from run and parse html DOM and pass objects between Ruby's
 runtime and Javascripts runtime. My point is they have a proxy class that
 gives one the ability to pass objects between the environments.

 This kind of feature might be useful for MacRuby, if I could define my
 ruby class in ruby then pass it to an Objective C proxy then have an
 Objective C class call it, it would be kind of nice.

 Here is Johnson: http://github.com/jbarnette/johnson/tree/master
 and here is a presentation that talks about some of the things I am
 talking about: http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/how-i-learned-to-love-
 javascript.html
 they use Johnson to make a ruby object and pass it to javascript and vise-
 versa.

 I am not an Objective C expert so there might be something in Objective C
 that might prevent this but if you can dynamically create a class that's
 function calls just bounce from an Objective C caller to a proxy to their
 Ruby implementation and I know you can do the opposite in ruby.

 This might be unnecessary or not needed for MacRuby, but I could see this
 being very useful for prototyping things, plus if you could proxy other
 Objective C classes into ruby without much work.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/219>
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