Re: [MacRuby-devel] Appscript and pathname translation

2012-04-19 Thread Robert Schaaf
Thanks Al, This works like a charm. I can guarantee that no directories will get through, but as to avoiding HFS, I'm afraid Excel wants it. Now if only there was a way to speed up Macruby's load time. It would be nice if someone forked the project to make Macruby a system service launched at

[MacRuby-devel] StringScanner Performance

2012-04-19 Thread Sylvester Keil
Dear all, while debugging performance issues for a gem (bibtex-ruby) I noticed that MacRuby's StringScanner implementation creates new Regular Expression objects every time #scan is called; as I am dealing with a lexical analyzer based on StringScanner the #scan method is quite crucial and the

Re: [MacRuby-devel] StringScanner Performance

2012-04-19 Thread Watson
Hi, I think your report is relating with http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/1341 Thanks 2012/4/19 Sylvester Keil : > Dear all, > > while debugging performance issues for a gem (bibtex-ruby) I noticed that > MacRuby's StringScanner implementation creates new Regular Expression objects > every

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Help with class files

2012-04-19 Thread Robert Rice
Hi Joshua, Thanks for the advice. I don't think that I did try a clean build, but I'm not going to worry about it now since I upgraded the project to Xcode 4 yesterday. It was easier than I had anticipated. After installing the latest Xcode 4, I was able to install the most recent MacRuby. Xcod