Hey Leigh, I don't (currently) have much of an opinion about HotCocoa, but regarding the specific example you give, there has been some talk about implementing the Ruby net/* libraries on top of NSURLConnection and friends. In the past, the problem has been that NSURLConnection is inherently async and the net/* libraries attempt to do things a bit more synchronous. However, maybe we could use an alternative Ruby library (like HTTParty) as a starting point instead?
Cheers, Josh On Nov 13, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Leigh Caplan wrote: > Hey everybody, > > I wanted to say hi to the list and introduce myself - I've been lurking for > awhile and come by when I need help, but RubyConf has me all fired up, so I'd > like to start engaging more with the community. My name is Leigh Caplan, and > I'm a developer in Seattle, WA. I like long walks on the beach, dinner by > candlelight, and not having to write my Mac OS X apps in Objective C. > > First, I wanted to tell everyone about a potentially useful menu extra that I > created called CobraMenu. It's meant to be a simple "traffic light" for CI > Joe (the super simple/awesome CI server written by the Github guys). You can > find more info at http://texel.github.com/CobraMenu/ or just clone/fork it > from https://github.com/texel/CobraMenu > > Next, developing this got me thinking about HotCocoa, and how it could evolve > into a really useful project in the future. I had a chat w/ Matt Aimonetti > today, and he mentioned that Rich Kilmer, while still interested in the > project, both didn't have time to maintain it and also wasn't convinced that > its current goal as a DSL for creating UI elements was necessarily useful for > anything but trivial projects. Apparently there's also been some discussion > to this effect on this list, but I'm a bit late to the party, so I apologize. > > Now, I *can* see a need for a ruby-like DSL for Cocoa, but in my opinion, it > would be much more exciting if we endeavored to wrap other Cocoa classes and > idioms in a loving Ruby-like embrace. Here's a rudimentary example (very much > like something I've done in CobraMenu): > > HotCocoa::URLConnection.get('http://google.com') do |c| > > c.success { success_callback } > > c.failure { failure_callback } > > c.error { |e| error_handler.call_something e } > > end > > > I'd be interested to see if other people think this is a good idea. If so, I > can formulate a strategy, and get to work :) > > Leigh > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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