Comments on: RubyCocoa + IRB for Testing!

By: Andy Matuschak

Andy Matuschak — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:24:33 +0000

Oh ho! I didn’t realize that the Leopard-bundled version wasn’t the newest one. Thanks, Laurent.

By: Laurent Sansonetti

Laurent Sansonetti — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:43:36 +0000

Oops, sorry for the bad markup… here is a pastie instead: http://pastebin.com/m484ae716

By: Laurent Sansonetti

Laurent Sansonetti — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:42:13 +0000

Works for me. Note that you need 0.13.0.

$ irb -r osx/cocoa
>> OSX::NSImage.imageFileTypes.inspect
=> “#, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #, #]>”
>> OSX::RUBYCOCOA_VERSION
=> “0.13.0″
>>

By: Andy Matuschak

Andy Matuschak — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:28:20 +0000

Laurent: I tried OSX::NSImage.imageFileTypes.inspect, but it just returned "#<OSX::NSCFArray:0x3035a4 class='NSCFArray' id=0x1a2b550>"

By: Laurent Sansonetti

Laurent Sansonetti — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:01:17 +0000

RubyCocoa ships with an example called CocoaRepl, which is an interactive Ruby window, where you can enter expressions and evaluate them on the fly. It’s often used for testing.

Also note that RubyCocoa 0.13.0 (the latest release) provides custom inspect methods for many Cocoa classes. NSArray#inspect for example will display all the elements, which is very nice for testing too.

By: Giuseppe Alletti

Giuseppe Alletti — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:26:02 +0000

I often find very useful also Mark Dalrymple’s tecnique:
http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/in-praise-of-little-command-line-apps/

By: Henrik N

Henrik N — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:59:14 +0000

Seems like it could be a nice idea to write a tiny wrapper script (”irc”?) that opens IRB with that require + perhaps an include OSX.