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MacRuby 0.5 beta 2 is out.

41 points by petesalty 17y ago

cscotta 17y ago
This is great to see. MacRuby is accomplishing important work very quickly. Here are the highlights from the latest Status Report from 0.5, posted by Laurent on Monday at http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2009-November/003286.html http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2009-Nov... ---------------------------------------- Enjoy! The final 0.5 release is not far at this point :-) Highlights: - rdoc, ri, rack, sinatra are now working. - DTrace probes are available. Same as in MacRuby 0.4. - BigDecimal, OpenSSL and JSON support (experimental). - macrubyc: support for building fat binaries (using the --arch argument). - New tool: macruby_deploy, to help you deploying a MacRuby application, by ahead-of-time compiling its source code and relocating the MacRuby framework inside the application bundle. One-click Xcode targets provided. - Lots of bugs fixed, especially related to compatibility, thread-safeness and memory/resource leaks.
- rauljara 17y ago
  Who on earth downvoted this and why?
mark_l_watson 17y ago
Although I do all of my deployments on Linux, so MacRuby is not so useful to me, I still think that this is an exciting project: LVM compiler technology, potential for good runtime performance compared to other Ruby implementations, and a really nice interface for writing native Mac applications. If I had to write a Mac app, MacRuby and HotCocoa look great.
- carbon8 17y ago
  I don't know much about MacRuby, but as I understand it, it should be possible to port it to linux. See "what is it not?" and the second comment here: http://merbist.com/2009/05/27/macruby-changing-the-ruby-ecosystem/ http://merbist.com/2009/05/27/macruby-changing-the-ruby-ecos...
jasonwong 17y ago
Feels like I just tried getting beta 1 working yesterday. Oh yeah, that was yesterday. This would be a lot easier to do if LLVM decided to play nice. Update: Just installed,and worked like a charm! Kudos, guys!
rufugee 17y ago
How far off is support for native iPhone apps written in Ruby? Is this on the roadmap?
- cscotta 17y ago
  I believe the roadblock here is the lack of support for automatic garbage collection for applications developed using the iPhone SDK in the mobile OS. I'm a Ruby developer, not iPhone/Cocoa so this could be way off base, but I believe this is what it came down to in a previous discussion.
- GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
  MacRuby relies on the Objective-C garbage collector, which is disabled on the iPhone.
  - rufugee 17y ago
    So would it be possible to plug in another garbage collection scheme...just for iPhone apps?

41 points by petesalty 17y ago

This is great to see. MacRuby is accomplishing important work very quickly. Here are the highlights from the latest Status Report from 0.5, posted by Laurent on Monday at http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2009-November/003286.html http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2009-Nov... ---------------------------------------- Enjoy! The final 0.5 release is not far at this point :-) Highlights: - rdoc, ri, rack, sinatra are now working. - DTrace probes are available. Same as in MacRuby 0.4. - BigDecimal, OpenSSL and JSON support (experimental). - macrubyc: support for building fat binaries (using the --arch argument). - New tool: macruby_deploy, to help you deploying a MacRuby application, by ahead-of-time compiling its source code and relocating the MacRuby framework inside the application bundle. One-click Xcode targets provided. - Lots of bugs fixed, especially related to compatibility, thread-safeness and memory/resource leaks.

rauljara 17y ago
Who on earth downvoted this and why?

mark_l_watson 17y ago

Although I do all of my deployments on Linux, so MacRuby is not so useful to me, I still think that this is an exciting project: LVM compiler technology, potential for good runtime performance compared to other Ruby implementations, and a really nice interface for writing native Mac applications. If I had to write a Mac app, MacRuby and HotCocoa look great.

carbon8 17y ago
I don't know much about MacRuby, but as I understand it, it should be possible to port it to linux. See "what is it not?" and the second comment here: http://merbist.com/2009/05/27/macruby-changing-the-ruby-ecosystem/ http://merbist.com/2009/05/27/macruby-changing-the-ruby-ecos...

jasonwong 17y ago

Feels like I just tried getting beta 1 working yesterday. Oh yeah, that was yesterday. This would be a lot easier to do if LLVM decided to play nice. Update: Just installed,and worked like a charm! Kudos, guys!

rufugee 17y ago

How far off is support for native iPhone apps written in Ruby? Is this on the roadmap?

cscotta 17y ago
I believe the roadblock here is the lack of support for automatic garbage collection for applications developed using the iPhone SDK in the mobile OS. I'm a Ruby developer, not iPhone/Cocoa so this could be way off base, but I believe this is what it came down to in a previous discussion.
GeoJawDguJin 17y ago
MacRuby relies on the Objective-C garbage collector, which is disabled on the iPhone.
- rufugee 17y ago
  So would it be possible to plug in another garbage collection scheme...just for iPhone apps?