[MacRuby-devel] helping out

[Brian Marick]

I'm going to start porting the _RubyCocoa_ demo app into MacRuby.  
What's the most useful (to you) branch to use?

On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:

> 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 at 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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