[MacRuby-devel] helping out

[Matt Aimonetti]

Use trunk aka 0.4 for now.

- Matt

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Brian Marick <marick at exampler.com> wrote:

> 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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