[MacRuby-devel] The Future of MacRuby

[Kevin Poorman]

I can start migrating the macruby-Recipes repository to the wiki section of Github, but I'd like to make the case they should be in a sub-module or repository that users can download directly, not just view on the wiki. 

I've started, but have largely failed -- due to a new job -- to "port" MagicalRecord core-data code to mac-ruby, giving us a "active record like" interface to core data. 

I have some new recipes to add to the macruby-recipes repo (https://bitbucket.org/codefriar/macruby-recipes) that I can push hopefully later today. I'd really love some suggestions on what recipes to add. you can see the ones I have in progress on that repo's wiki. 

Perhaps we should find consensus on style so various recipes don't look completely different?

All that said, I agree with other posts discussing the bugs / missing features we need to find a way to fix/get up to speed. My C/C++/Obj-c is non-existent to rusty at best, so if there are any macruby vm coders who could offload work to me, in order to give them time to fix those, let me know offliist. 

I was wondering if there would be benefit to writing (a) Generator(s) ala' Rails' "rails" script for the stubbing out of apps and m,v,c ? Imagine:

facet new <application name>
facet g model <AwesomeModelName!>
…

Thoughts?

-Kevin


On Apr 8, 2012, at 11:50 PM, Colin Thomas-Arnold wrote:

> tl;dr: I propose getting tutorials and code under one structured collection, and
> to create classes that wrap Core Data in the same way HotCocoa wraps NSViews.
> 
> I agree with the sentiments about "setting ourselves apart". How do we do that?
> Please allow me to pontificate. I apologize for the length.
> 
> I think we have already answered this question: Cocoa is huge and hard to learn
> when you are getting started. Let's fix that!
> 
> Let's make it easy - NAY - FUN to get started. That's what made Rails so darn
> popular, right? It's not because it was the fastest, or had a long history of
> support, or zero bugs, or stability. It was FUN. And that's what *Ruby* is
> about, too!
> 
> I think we should also show off how "grown up" MacRuby already is. When I saw
> that there was already a Core Data project template, I was sold. If that
> *hadn't* been there, I would have balked, for sure, and maybe even walked away. 
> Also, Matt Aimoetti's MacRuby book, and the upcoming book, MacRuby in Action,
> indicate that the support is out there.
> 
> I think that HotCocoa is a great example of "fun" and "distinctive development
> cycle". It aims to be a replacement for Interface Builder. I don't think we
> need to stop there. We can replace *Xcode*. Hotcocoa already handles
> compilation, using macrake to run or deploy or embed a project. If we could go
> so far as to wrap up Core Data into ruby classes, hoohoo boy would we be having
> fun then! "HotCocoaData" anyone?
> 
> For my part, I'd like to reach out to those of you that have collections of
> recipes and tutorials, and start creating a structured repository of these
> resources (jballanc/Josh recommended using the github wiki as this tutorial
> repository).
> 
> I would *really* like it if our tutorials did the same things most
> do (pushing a button => prints "hello" - WOW!), but then always take that a few
> steps further. If it is easy to print "hello", why would you stop there? Do
> something useful, or at least something complicated, that provides food for
> thought.
> 
> With help, I think we could create a project that allows us to create Core
> Data models using ruby code. At that point, *everything* could be done in ruby,
> but with full access to Cocoa, and then we'd be doing something really exciting.
> Not that MacRuby isn't already exciting - if it wasn't, we wouldn't be talking
> about this stuff!
> 
> #colinta
> 
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