[MacRuby-devel] Renaming the MacRuby project

[Ben Rimmington]

On 3 Apr 2011, at 18:33, Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote:

> I like the name MacRuby :)
> NSObject is also still called NSObject although NeXTStep hasn't been
> around for a long time.

I don't hate the name MacRuby, but I thought it might be confusing (if someday Ruby becomes the most popular language for writing iOS apps). However, your analogy to the NeXTSTEP frameworks was good.

On 3 Apr 2011, at 19:07, Matt Aimonetti wrote:

> While there is nothing wrong with having this kind of discussion, I don't think we are currently looking into changing the project's name ;)

Maybe it just takes a while to appreciate the project name (a bit like how the name "iPad" was unpopular at first).

P.S. In chapter 5 of "MacRuby: The Definitive Guide", you might be able to use -addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock: to simplify your NSNotificationCenter examples.

<http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449380373/ch05.html#_tasks_subprocesses>

<http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449380373/ch05.html#_notifications>

For the second example, instead of:

> framework 'Foundation'
> 
> class NotificationHandler
>   def tea_time(notification)
>     puts "it's tea time!"
>   end
> end
> 
> center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter
> notification_handler = NotificationHandler.new
> 
> center.addObserver( notification_handler,
>                     selector: "tea_time:",
>                     name: 'tea_time_reminder',
>                     object: nil )
> 
> center.postNotificationName("tea_time_reminder", object:self)

You might be able to do:

> framework 'Foundation'
> 
> center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter
> 
> observer = center.addObserverForName(
>   "tea_time_reminder",
>   object: nil
>   queue: nil
>   usingBlock: Proc.new{|notification| puts "it's tea time!" } )
> 
> center.postNotificationName("tea_time_reminder", object:self)