[MacRuby-devel] Framework callbacks in macirb

[Dave Baldwin]

On 9 Feb 2009, at 04:28, Robert Schaaf wrote:

> Tedd,
>
> To quote Ogden Nash, I'm a stranger here myself.
>
> I agree about objective-c; it's notationally unattractive.  It seems  
> to be an uncomfortable hybrid, despite the power of the object model.
>
> The only appreciable Ruby code I've written is a program that parses  
> the header of a DB2 IXF file (a database dump) and loads it into  
> Excel preserving data types.  It uses Appscript, so it's a no-go in  
> MacRuby.  I'm now rewriting it to load the DB2 data into postgres.
>
> BTW, can anyone recommend a book on Ruby idioms, frinstance: change  
> all 'x' in a string to 'y'?
>

Programming Ruby AKA Pickaxe
The Well Grounded Rubyist (the follow on from Ruby For Rails).

str.gsub!(/x/, 'y')


Dave.

> Bob Schaaf
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Tedd Fox wrote:
>
>> Awesome advice!!!  I actually "accidentally" did that last  
>> night :-)  Thanks!  I am learning Ruby and I am a Macintosh NOT but  
>> do not "get" objective-C for some reason, so I am choosing MacRuby  
>> as my Speciality.  I am glad MacRuby came along :-)
>>
>> I like the faster prototyping ability (which is exactly what I need).
>>
>> Any other advice for a newb?  A real newb?
>>
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Robert Schaaf wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Tedd,
>>>
>>> This happened to me until I realized that I updated from the  
>>> testing branch, rather than the development branch.  My guess is  
>>> that you've done the same.
>>>
>>> You need to go here <http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/MacRubyDevelopment 
>>> > and follow the directions at the top of the page.
>>>
>>> Then you need to wait for documentation, and more frameworks mapped.
>>>
>>> Then you need to wait for the ability to lay out your windows  
>>> precisely, in a Cocoa-compliant way.  (The sliders in the Layout  
>>> View app are an egregiously awful example!)
>>> Or learn to integrate it with Interface Builder.
>>>
>>> Also, MacRuby, which is wonderful beyond measure, will have to  
>>> mature.  Without gems, life is not worth living.
>>>
>>> Bob Schaaf
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Tedd Fox wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry for the newb question, but how can one upgrade from .3?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 8, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Vincent Isambart wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Macintosh:vincentisambart-hotconsole- 
>>>>>> cbdd6d06ece482e124516359cd9299294667daeb barry$ macrake
>>>>>> (in /Users/barry/dev/vincentisambart-hotconsole- 
>>>>>> cbdd6d06ece482e124516359cd9299294667daeb)
>>>>>> rake aborted!
>>>>>> no such file to load -- hotcocoa/standard_rake_tasks
>>>>>> /Users/barry/dev/vincentisambart-hotconsole- 
>>>>>> cbdd6d06ece482e124516359cd9299294667daeb/rakefile:2:in `require'
>>>>>> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
>>>>>
>>>>> This means you are using an old version of MacRuby, probably  
>>>>> 0.3. You
>>>>> can check it by running macruby -v, or in macirb by displaying
>>>>> MACRUBY_VERSION and MACRUBY_REVISION.
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