Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #134: require 'rexml/document' fails

2008-11-12 Thread MacRuby
#134: require 'rexml/document' fails +--- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major |Mil

Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - MacRuby aux Fines Merbs...

2008-11-12 Thread Rich Morin
At 13:36 -0500 11/12/08, Benjamin Stiglitz wrote: > I should say that the RubySpec effort is also useful for > testing MacRuby, in as much as it provides coverage for > the vast majority of the behavior which MacRuby shares > with 1.9 ... My understanding is that the 1.9 coverage in the RubySpec s

Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - MacRuby aux Fines Merbs...

2008-11-12 Thread Benjamin Stiglitz
PS: Credits to Laurent who has been making an effort on writing more and more tests for the core part of MacRuby! :) Ditto. I should say that the RubySpec effort is also useful for testing MacRuby, in as much as it provides coverage for the vast majority of the behavior which MacRuby share

Re: [MacRuby-devel] HotCocoa Part I

2008-11-12 Thread Eloy Duran
Hi Rich, That seems like a sensible list to me. Thanks for the info! - Eloy On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Richard Kilmer wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Richard Kilmer wrote: All, As the main author of HotCocoa let me chime in on what I see its main purpose is. In a nutshell here i

Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - MacRuby aux Fines Merbs...

2008-11-12 Thread Eloy Duran
On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: One thing the "cowboys", from Rails for instance, have done right is that there are tests for almost everything, which is something that is seriously lacking atm imo. Rails testing suite is in a very sad state, Definitely not going to argue

Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - MacRuby aux Fines Merbs...

2008-11-12 Thread Rich Morin
At 10:50 +0100 11/12/08, Eloy Duran wrote: > One thing the "cowboys", from Rails for instance, have done right > is that there are tests for almost everything, which is something > that is seriously lacking atm imo. Definitely. I had intended to mention testing, but it got lost. I can't find muc

Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - MacRuby aux Fines Merbs...

2008-11-12 Thread Matt Aimonetti
> > One thing the "cowboys", from Rails for instance, have done right > is that there are tests for almost everything, > which is something that is seriously lacking atm imo. > Rails testing suite is in a very sad state, however I do agree with you, and I'll go further, we also need a test harness

Re: [MacRuby-devel] can't build trunk

2008-11-12 Thread Matt Aimonetti
not sure why I did it like that, I read it somewhere and then I was lazy and didn't bother looking further :( -Matt On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Markus Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On 12.11.2008, at 07:26, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > > yay! I finally got it to build. Turns out that I s

Re: [MacRuby-devel] HotCocoa Part I

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Kilmer
On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Richard Kilmer wrote: All, As the main author of HotCocoa let me chime in on what I see its main purpose is. In a nutshell here is my 5 second primary definition: "HotCocoa is an idiomatic Ruby API that simplifies the configuration and wiring together of com

[MacRuby-devel] HotCocoa Part I

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Kilmer
All, As the main author of HotCocoa let me chime in on what I see its main purpose is. In a nutshell here is my 5 second primary definition: "HotCocoa is an idiomatic Ruby API that simplifies the configuration and wiring together of complex ObjC/Cocoa classes." I realize this will not be

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Hotcocoa design ethos

2008-11-12 Thread Eloy Duran
The result we're looking for (IMHO) is a way to write Cocoa apps that "look right" to Ruby programmers. The number of Objective-C programmers who don't work on OSX apps is vanishingly small. By opening up OSX programming to MacBook-carrying Rubyists, Apple can grow its developer base in relative

Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - MacRuby aux Fines Merbs...

2008-11-12 Thread Eloy Duran
* Focus on design and engineering In an age of "cowboy programming", I find it refreshing to see that some programming projects actually embrace design and engineering. One thing the “cowboys”, from Rails for instance, have done right is that there are tests for almost everything, which i

Re: [MacRuby-devel] can't build trunk

2008-11-12 Thread Markus Prinz
On 12.11.2008, at 07:26, Matt Aimonetti wrote: yay! I finally got it to build. Turns out that I still had the old miniruby which wasn't built properly. After cleaning up everything, restored MacOsX ruby and re tried, everything works fine :) By the way, was there any reason why you remove