[MacRuby-devel] Fwd: OS X10.9 & MacRuby's future...

[Matt Aimonetti]

Is "require" supported in RubyMotion for OS X? What about Ruby gems?
Can one just compile his/her own MacRuby project using RubyMotion without
making any (major) changes?

- Matt


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:26 PM, stephen horne <fatste at gmail.com> wrote:

> From what I understand, the only thing missing in Rubymotion is eval()
>
> There's an article by Clay Allsop about meta-programming in Rubymotion at
> http://clayallsopp.com/posts/rubymotion-metaprogramming/
>
> I tested to see if eval() works in desktop Rubymotion apps (I read
> somewhere that the reason it's not included is due to Apple restrictions on
> run-time code evaluation in iOS, rather than a limit of Rubymotion), but it
> doesn't.
>
> fb
>
>   david kramf <dakr.012 at gmail.com>
>  17/05/2013 13:19
>
> Is RubyMotion  a full Ruby. Does it support reflection and metaprograming?
> Thanks, David Kramf
>
>
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>   Francis Chong <francis at ignition.hk>
>  17/05/2013 12:15
> While I'm really happy about OS X support on RubyMotion, it is not a
> replacement for MacRuby.
>
> IMHO MacRuby is far superior:
>
> It offer JIT compiler, you develop orders of magnitude faster as you dont
> need clean and rebuild every time.
>
> You have full ruby compatibility, load standard library as you wish.
>
> It loads gems and framework dynamically like what you would expected from
> regular ruby.
>
> You don't have to write new gems, or rewrite them. Many gems just work,
> even native ones could work.
>
> You can use regular technique for meta programming, and generally you
> don't enter a uncanny valley between dynamic language and static build
> system.
>
> Some of these limitations are inherited from RubyMotion due to iOS
> restriction, I don't see them going away anytime soon.
>
> That said, RubyMotion team is the ones who know most of MacRuby, and
>  their direction is not like MacRuby in past. If you are going to develop
> Mac app, your best choice is probably go RubyMotion, or just use
> Objective-C.
> —
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