MacRuby for simple Ruby

[Jean Guillaume Pyraksos]

Hi,
If I download MacRuby, will I be able to program "usual" Ruby
(without Cocoa and the Objective-C bridge), with gems, etc.
or am I obliged to program a Caoca Mac application ?
Is there an IDE inside, or just XCode ?
Thanks a lot,

JG

 

[Jose Hales-Garcia]

If I download MacRuby, will I be able to program "usual" Ruby
(without Cocoa and the Objective-C bridge), with gems, etc.
or am I obliged to program a Caoca Mac application ?
Is there an IDE inside, or just XCode ?

The stated goal of MacRuby is to be 100% compatible syntactically and
behaviorally with Ruby 1.9. So, in theory, you should be able to write
usual Ruby code.

I don't know that all the gems are compatible though. You might ask
their list about particular gems...

http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel

There is no other IDE from Apple except Xcode that would be used for
Ruby.

Jose
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Jose Hales-Garcia
UCLA Department of Statistics
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Robert Gleeson]

Hi,
If I download MacRuby, will I be able to program "usual" Ruby
(without Cocoa and the Objective-C bridge), with gems, etc.
or am I obliged to program a Caoca Mac application ?
Is there an IDE inside, or just XCode ?
Thanks a lot,

JG

MacRuby can't compile native extensions yet, and fork() is not
implemented and there are no plans to implement it either(Due to the
CoreFoundation framework, and maybe other reasons) .. So there are some
gems that will never ever work with MacRuby.

MacRuby is good for casual programming right now but until it gets a
little bit older I wouldn't consider it for developing production
applications. It is still a fun language for hacking around on, though.

-- Rob