That’s a fun one because it involves a good opportunity to create a Ruby DSL, which will be a good demo for a book. I wrote a state machine DSL using Boo way back when using Ayende Rahein’s book on the topic (http://www.codeplex.com/SimpleStateMachine) and although Boo provides some meta-programming capabilities, the implementation was painful and hacky and hard to evolve and the DSL syntax was more constrained that I would have liked. I always wanted to re-implement using a parser generator to fix all that, but never got to it. Ruby is a much better choice than either Boo or a parser generator for a state machine DSL. The contrast between how simple and straightforward a Ruby DSL can be will be stark. I imagine IR will be preferred path to internal DSL’s on the .NET framework from now on. I was going to look at doing something like this in Ruby myself at one point, but when I looked (very briefly) there seemed to be a few state machine libraries already offered by the Ruby community I wanted to evaluate first. For illustrative purposes for a book, though, that is irrelevant, although you may want to survey them anyway, as preparation.
From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:21 AM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Open source project to port Seo started with the ironmagick gem :) Ryan pointed me towards this little library/application, it seems to be the right size and is fairly interesting: http://code.google.com/p/stateless unless somebody has a better idea it will pop up in my ironrubyinaction repository somewhere next week. --- Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto Carrero Blog: http://flanders.co.nz Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero) On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Dotan N. <dip...@gmail.com> wrote: ok sounds like a plan for a weekend research. i'll post my findings as soon as i can :) On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Jim Deville <jdevi...@microsoft.com> wrote: For ImageMagick/RMagick, you should be able to get away with making an adapter that matches the API of RMagick or ImageMagic with the functions in System.Drawing. There will probably be more beyond that, but that should get you started. JD From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Stults Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:03 AM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Open source project to port Me too. From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Web Administrator Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:56 AM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Open source project to port No idea what the project would take. But, I'd be interested in contributing. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:39 AM, "Dotan N." <dip...@gmail.com> wrote: bummer :( well, my idea was a pure imagemagick interface .net implementation, at least to some extent, exactly what the guys from rmagick4j did for java. with rmagick4j i don't need 10mb of imagemagick dependencies at all, its all pure java, and pure jruby. do any of you have ideas as to how much effort such a thing would take ? On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Ivan Porto Carrero <i...@flanders.co.nz> wrote: Yes but in my case it's to use in my book as an example of this is how you rubyfiy a C# application. I do it to some extend with witty in my WPF chapter. I'm not thinking in the orders of magnitude of Hibernate or even ironrubymvc. But it should be something fairly well-known. I don't see much benefit in porting any of the testing libraries, mocking frameworks or dependency injection stuff but it would be good to take something that is familiar to many .NET devs I just can't think of any projects right now. RMagick is certainly a very interesting library. The link below uses ImageMagick and mono so I imagine that could be a start :) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8138533 --- Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto Carrero Blog: http://flanders.co.nz Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero) On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Nathan Stults <nathan_stu...@hsihealth.com> wrote: I would second that idea as well. I’d love to use ruby to port some sparkline and other BI visualization graph libraries, and a graphics library would be just the ticket. From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Dotan N. Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:31 AM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Open source project to port and to add on that, a common pain i get with rails is an image processing library to stand in for rmagick (i use JRuby on windows on some projects, and they have rmagick4j which is very convenient), so that might be a good target. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Dotan N. <dip...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm interested to possibly join, whatever it may be :) On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Ivan Porto Carrero <i...@flanders.co.nz> wrote: Hi I'm looking for a smallish .NET open source project to port to ironruby which one should I take? --- Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto Carrero Blog: http://flanders.co.nz Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero) _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
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