[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby Working Properly?

[Chong-Yee Khoo]

Thanks very much for this, Andy.

On Feb 21, 6:20 pm, Andy Park <sohoc... at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Ruby String class is a subclass of NSString:
>
> MacRuby-0.12 irb(main):001:0> "foo".class.ancestors
> => [String,
>  NSMutableString,
>  NSString,
>  Comparable,
>  NSObject,
>  PP::ObjectMixin,
>  Kernel,
>  RbConfig]
>
> In order to get the list of all methods that an object responds to, including those defined in Cocoa classes, use #method(true,true):
>
> MacRuby-0.12 irb(main):003:0> "".methods(true,true).count
> => 763
>
> On 21 Feb 2012, at 10:48, Chong-Yee Khoo wrote:
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> > I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum to post this, so please
> > accept my apologies if so.
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> > I have a slight suspicion that MacRuby is not working/not installed
> > properly in my machine.
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> > In macirb, the class of an object is always reported as the Ruby
> > class, not the NS class - e.g., string is always "String", when I
> > believe it should be NSString.
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> > $ macirb
> > irb(main):001:0> "foo".class
> > => String
>
> > also
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> > $ ruby -ve "p ''.methods.size"
> > ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0]
> > 162
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> > $ macruby -ve "p ''.methods.size"
> > MacRuby 0.10 (ruby 1.9.2) [universal-darwin10.0, x86_64]
> > 162
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> > when I would have expected the numbers to be higher in the second.
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> > Is this something that I should be concerned about?
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> > The curious thing is that I am working my way through Matt's book, and
> > the examples seem to work properly (including in Xcode, apart from the
> > hiccup with the recent 4.3 upgrade, which I haven't been able to
> > resolve yet).
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> > Any help would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance. System is
> > 10.7.3, Ruby 1.9.3, MacRuby 0.10, Xcode 4.3.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Chong-Yee
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