Comments on: RubyBrowser?

By: Alistair Holt

Alistair Holt — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:40:43 +0000

Yea, it’s a shame about that. It would be really nice to have some tasty custom formatting though (via css?).

By: Andy Matuschak

Andy Matuschak — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:35:38 +0000

Excellent suggestion, Alistair. I just wish it had support for -f html. I guess I’ll have to parse the plaintext output and make it prettier.

By: Alistair Holt

Alistair Holt — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:33:58 +0000

I love this. Would be nice to use fastri (http://eigenclass.org/hiki/fastri) rather than ri as it’s pretty slow :)

I’d love to get involved if you’re looking for any help.

By: Ash Ponders

Ash Ponders — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:40:10 +0000

I’m sure your marsedit drafts folder is bulging with leopard articles, but my rss reader is bored. Cant you tell me something nifty about ruby?

By: Andy Matuschak

Andy Matuschak — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:55:09 +0000

It’s actually been Rotation that’s been taking all my time; that’s over now, so I really hope I’ll have more time to be useful.

I’m also waiting until Leopard comes out so I can write the deluge of articles on new Cocoa things that have been under NDA.

By: Ash Ponders

Ash Ponders — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:17:21 +0000

Update more andy.
skip class if you must.

By: Ben Stiglitz

Ben Stiglitz — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:00:02 +0000

Andy: Glad to hear that you know the One True Browser Way. (Incidentally, I’d love to see an Objective-C IDE with a browser.)

That’s a nice use of NSTreeController.

By: Michael Gregoire

Michael Gregoire — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:04:36 +0000

Hey, thanks Andy!

Peace
Mike

By: Andy Matuschak

Andy Matuschak — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:48:12 +0000

Michael: I don’t plan to hack at this any more until Sparkle 2’s done, so feel free to go for it. It’s in an icky, undocumented state now: Download Ruby Browser (17-09-07). I haven’t done any speed comparisons, but it’s obviously slower by necessity, not only because Ruby’s about a bajillion times slower than compiled C but because it’s not a very efficient bridge. RubyObjC is a lot fancier, but the bridge operations are negligible compared to the relative slowness of Ruby, methinks.

Ben: Leaving those out would be like leaving out mixins at a Coldstone. It will not stand.

Mmm… oreo bits.

By: Ben Stiglitz

Ben Stiglitz — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:15:12 +0000

Oh, but think of the categories! The categories!

…well, maybe Extends.