Hi Iain, This is really strange. Could you tell us what version of Mac OS X you run and what version of Xcode and MacRuby you installed? Also, do you happen to run a 32-bit only Intel machine?
If you installed a new version of Xcode on top of a previous MacRuby installation, you may want to re-install MacRuby. If IB isn't picking up the metadata you may see messages in your console. Please paste any relevant information here. IB is using the /Developer/usr/bin/rb_nibtool command-line tool to retrieve metadata. You can call it by yourself on the terminal, passing a path to your Ruby file, and see what happens. If you get a property-list describing the relevant classes/outlets/actions then it means the problem is elsewhere. Laurent On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Iain Barnett wrote: > Hi, > > Please forgive me if this is the wrong list for my questions. I'm just > getting started with MacRuby, and running through several examples (like the > one here http://www.macruby.org/documentation/tutorial.html) I've noticed > that Interface Builder doesn't always pick up stuff defined by MacRuby > classes, and some of the examples don't seem to work for me. > > In that tutorial I got to this line: > >> "You will then see that IB knows about your class, and especially the outlet >> and action defined earlier." > > Aside from the fact that the tutorial seems to have been written for an > earlier version of Xcode, the Identity Inspector in Interface Builder does > pick up the class but it doesn't pick up the actions or outlets. I try tying > them up myself in the panel in the Library window but after build and run it > still doesn't work properly. > > In the MacRuby book on O'Reilly's site > http://macruby.labs.oreilly.com/ch04.html#_bindings I couldn't get it to even > pick up the class in the Identity Inspector until I had it derive from an NS > class. > > Coding the GUI directly with the AppKit framework does work, however > (http://macruby.labs.oreilly.com/ch01.html#_code_example), so I know it > *could* work. I'm on Xcode 3.2.3 and MacRuby 0.6 and OSX 10.6.4. I'm new to > Xcode too, which I reinstalled to make sure it wasn't that. I gritted my > teeth and did some Obj-C examples and they worked fine. I tried converting > some Obj-C examples into MacRuby and they didn't work. Sometimes they'd build > and run but events wouldn't work as expected, sometimes GDB would give the > "app exited with error 1" error message. > > Is there something I've missed or need to install, or is it that MacRuby is > still too new to work all the time? Any help much appreciated, as this > project looks very, very helpful. > > Regards, > Iain > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
