Hey John, I would happily spend some time on MacRuby, but I have no idea where to > start.
Anyway I was wondering whether you could give me a quick run down on > how to start investigating learning and experimenting with the > experimental branch. > Don't start with the experimental branch, it's a work in progress and unless you work on a very specific area under the supervision of Laurent, I think you should wait a little bit. I would like to start as simple as possible - but down the track one > particular part that i would be interested in is tracing the dispatch from > bridgesupport method to opengl function. > Once the experimental branch will have the cocoa integration I'm sure this is something we can help you working on. (and by 'we' I really mean: Laurent :p) Speaking of which is it you that cannot make it? Pity if so - I was looking > fwd to your talk as I have some very flaky code which interfaces with some > traditional (ie non REST) webservices - I was hoping for some (yet more) > tips ;-). > Unfortunately, there was a last minute change and I won't be able to make it to the conf. However, I'm still planning on preparing some documentation on integrating MacRuby apps with remote/local web applications. You mentioned non-REST webservices, what do you have to deal with? SOAP, XML-RPC, something else? On a different note, I can think of a few things that you could do to help: - work on MacRuby/HotCocoa examples, I know you already ported a lot of samples from various sources, but some original samples to show various technics would def. be helpful. - write articles for the blog (I believe you already started) - work on HotCocoa (add mappings, suggest new APIs, study a way to test hotcocoa code (hotcocoa itself as well as developer's code)) - port the major ruby C extensions to MacRuby (using C or obj-c) I'll try to talk with Laurent and list the things he would like people to work on. Once we have a concrete list, maybe we can organize ourselves in pairs/small groups and start tackling these tasks. - Matt On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM, John Shea <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > you said: > > If you were thinking about helping out, be reassured, help is always > welcome ;) > > I would happily spend some time on MacRuby, but I have no idea where to > start. > I downloaded the experimental branch - was not really sure to go from > there but tried running some simple ruby code with the miniruby > executable - it hung so I assume I was doing something wrong. > > Anyway I was wondering whether you could give me a quick run down on > how to start investigating learning and experimenting with the > experimental branch. Any links would be helpful. I would like to start > as simple as possible - but down the track one particular part that i > would be interested in is tracing the dispatch from bridgesupport > method to opengl function. > > I can't really spend much time until after the Amsterdam conference > however. > > Speaking of which is it you that cannot make it? Pity if so - I was > looking fwd to your talk as I have some very flakey code which > interfaces with some traditional (ie non REST) webservices - I was > hoping for some (yet more) tips ;-). > > Cheers, > J > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >
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