MacRuby 0.5 beta 2 is out. (opens in new tab)

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41 pointspetesalty16y ago9 comments

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rufugee16y ago· 3 in thread

How far off is support for native iPhone apps written in Ruby? Is this on the roadmap?

I believe the roadblock here is the lack of support for automatic garbage collection for applications developed using the iPhone SDK in the mobile OS.

I'm a Ruby developer, not iPhone/Cocoa so this could be way off base, but I believe this is what it came down to in a previous discussion.

GeoJawDguJin16y ago

MacRuby relies on the Objective-C garbage collector, which is disabled on the iPhone.

rufugee16y ago

So would it be possible to plug in another garbage collection scheme...just for iPhone apps?

cscotta16y ago· 1 in thread

This is great to see. MacRuby is accomplishing important work very quickly.

Here are the highlights from the latest Status Report from 0.5, posted by Laurent on Monday at http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2009-Nov...

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Enjoy! The final 0.5 release is not far at this point :-)

Highlights:

- rdoc, ri, rack, sinatra are now working.

- DTrace probes are available. Same as in MacRuby 0.4.

- BigDecimal, OpenSSL and JSON support (experimental).

- macrubyc: support for building fat binaries (using the --arch argument).

- New tool: macruby_deploy, to help you deploying a MacRuby application, by ahead-of-time compiling its source code and relocating the MacRuby framework inside the application bundle. One-click Xcode targets provided.

- Lots of bugs fixed, especially related to compatibility, thread-safeness and memory/resource leaks.

rauljara16y ago

Who on earth downvoted this and why?

mark_l_watson16y ago· 1 in thread

Although I do all of my deployments on Linux, so MacRuby is not so useful to me, I still think that this is an exciting project: LVM compiler technology, potential for good runtime performance compared to other Ruby implementations, and a really nice interface for writing native Mac applications.

If I had to write a Mac app, MacRuby and HotCocoa look great.

carbon816y ago

I don't know much about MacRuby, but as I understand it, it should be possible to port it to linux. See "what is it not?" and the second comment here: http://merbist.com/2009/05/27/macruby-changing-the-ruby-ecos...

jasonwong16y ago

Feels like I just tried getting beta 1 working yesterday. Oh yeah, that was yesterday. This would be a lot easier to do if LLVM decided to play nice. Update: Just installed,and worked like a charm! Kudos, guys!

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