visual ruby project

[Peña, Botp]

Hi,

is there someone doing like this =
http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/description.php in ruby?

if not, it would be great as a SoC project (w universal plugin to =
editors and supports outputs including asciitext/curses). This will be =
very useful for ruby beginners and those who would like to study =
ruby-written frameworks like rails

kind regards -botp

 

[SonOfLilit]

Hmmm, the visualization itself seems like it will be very messy on
implementation deisions.


How about a visualization where you see the code and animation over
it, with smooth zooming where needed (out and then in, not just up or
down, that works better to show the user where in the code the result
is), and for stuff that can't be found in the code, just have the text
zoom towards the viewer while becoming transparent until it escapes
the screen?


Easy to do if you know a bit of OpenGL.


Great to follow along.


The Ruby part is easy since writing profilers is so trivial in Ruby.


It'll greatly benefit the community. IMHO.


Anyone up for it?

Hi,

is there someone doing like this http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/description.= php in ruby?

if not, it would be great as a SoC project (w universal plugin to editors=

and supports outputs including asciitext/curses). This will be very useful=
for ruby beginners and those who would like to study ruby-written framewor=
ks like rails

 

[Peña, Botp]

From: SonOfLilit [mailto:[email protected]] :
# The Ruby part is easy since writing profilers is so trivial in Ruby.

i cannot wait on how one would picture method_missing, meta methods that =
magically springs into existence, and garbage collection; maybe picture =
them w balloons, magic wands, and witch brooms )


# It'll greatly benefit the community. IMHO.

indeed. ultimately, assumming one could come up w a generic =
multi-language visualizer, it would be one of the best tools to use to =
study a language. a killer app, imho.

kind regards -botp

 

[SonOfLilit]

A generic language visualiser won't be. It just won't, IMHO, since
language execution models are so different.

A framework for language visualization that does the graphics and lets
you tell it how to visualize would be possible, tho.

I can easily tell you how method_missing would be visualised: you'd
see the call to method_missing, like any other call to code that is
written out in the .rb files. Methods that don't exist in code, like
those created by metaprogramming, would be visualised as I described -
they method name and parameters would zoom towards the camera and
dissapear.

Garbage collection is simple to visualize - collected objects just
fade away, if any memory visualization is done (which with my first
proposal isn't the case).

It will indeed greatly benefit the community.

Anyone up for the task?

From: SonOfLilit [mailto:[email protected]] :
# The Ruby part is easy since writing profilers is so trivial in Ruby.

i cannot wait on how one would picture method_missing, meta methods that =

magically springs into existence, and garbage collection; maybe picture the=
m w balloons, magic wands, and witch brooms )

# It'll greatly benefit the community. IMHO.

indeed. ultimately, assumming one could come up w a generic multi-languag=

e visualizer, it would be one of the best tools to use to study a language.=
a killer app, imho.