So we are finally there, RubyOSA 0.1.0 has been released. Thanks to everyone for the feedback. This project has in my opinion a great future, and we have plenty of ideas to make it better. Just after my demo during RubyConf, I received 3 patches. Which have been merged to this first release. And people started using it to do some interesting...

Haven't had a chance to write about the recent work that was recently introduced in those projects. On the RubyCocoa front, libffi is now used everywhere, more specifically when branching new pure Ruby method implementations (using closures). This fixes some weird bugs related to floating parameters that were not properly handled when passing...

I can't resist pasting some very funny quotes I found on /. this morning: "If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a Java program. The rest of them will write Perl programs." (#16135982) "Perl terrifies me, it looks like an explosion in an ascii factory." (#16137416) "Having perl as your fist...

I can't resist pasting some very funny quotes I found on /. this morning: "If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a Java program. The rest of them will write Perl programs." (#16135982) "Perl terrifies me, it looks like an explosion in an ascii factory." (#16137416) "Having perl as your fist...

I have been busy the latest days experimenting the usage of the libffi library inside RubyCocoa. If you don't know about libffi, it's a library part of the GCC project to call arbitrary C functions at runtime, stacking the parameters for you depending on their type and the architecture. The PyObjC project is using it since years, so there was...

I have been busy the latest days experimenting the usage of the libffi library inside RubyCocoa. If you don't know about libffi, it's a library part of the GCC project to call arbitrary C functions at runtime, stacking the parameters for you depending on their type and the architecture. The PyObjC project is using it since years, so there was...

Development on RubyOSA has been very active recently. It's almost ready for prime time, and I will make a first public release soon. Various improvements and fixes were introduced, such as the support for passing filenames, converting records to hashes, minimizing the send of events by implicitely resolving object specifiers only when it's...

Back from California, where I spent two weeks. Obligatory pictures! So during WWDC we announced great stuff about Ruby. You probably know about Rails. One thing you're maybe not aware of is the inclusion of the RubyCocoa project (an Objective-C to Ruby bridge) which I have been contributing to very recently. Finally, maybe not that important,...

Back from California, where I spent two weeks. Obligatory pictures! So during WWDC we announced great stuff about Ruby. You probably know about Rails. One thing you're maybe not aware of is the inclusion of the RubyCocoa project (an Objective-C to Ruby bridge) which I have been contributing to very recently. Finally, maybe not that important,...

A nice presentation on Rails (in French) that deserves more visibility. Forward!

A nice presentation on Rails (in French) that deserves more visibility. Forward!

These last weeks have been very hard, preparing things and polishing others for the upcoming conference. I now have a huge list of personal e-mails to answer to :-) So, I will be present at the WWDC. I can’t give more details but Ruby enthusiasts should not be disappointed. It appears that some RubyCocoa fellows will also be present, and...

These last weeks have been very hard, preparing things and polishing others for the upcoming conference. I now have a huge list of personal e-mails to answer to :-) So, I will be present at the WWDC. I can’t give more details but Ruby enthusiasts should not be disappointed. It appears that some RubyCocoa fellows will also be present, and...

I had the opportunity to hack a bit on RubyOSA recently, and I could introduce some good things in the SVN repository. The most important changes are writable properties and i386 support. Other than that, several small bugfixes/improvements (better type conversion, better support of broken dictionaries, etc…). Oh, and we have a new geeky...

I had the opportunity to hack a bit on RubyOSA recently, and I could introduce some good things in the SVN repository. The most important changes are writable properties and i386 support. Other than that, several small bugfixes/improvements (better type conversion, better support of broken dictionaries, etc…). Oh, and we have a new geeky...