Thanks Laurent,
I'd forgotten about performRubySelector:. The ruby class I'm using takes 2
args, one of them a default argument, so I created an initWith method to work
around that - problem solved now.
Alan
On 17 Jan 2011, at 21:51, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> When performing Ruby selectors on Ruby objects from Objective-C, the
> performRubySelector: method should be used instead of performSelector:,
> because it takes care of special Ruby semantics such as splat or default
> arguments.
>
> [RubyClass performRubySelector:@selector(new:) withArguments: arg,
> NULL];
>
> Laurent
>
> On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:05 AM, Alan Skipp wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Is there any way to inform an Objective-C class of the existence of a ruby
>> class so that instances can be created in Objective-C code?
>> Currently I am doing the following:
>>
>> [[MacRuby sharedRuntime] evaluateString:[NSString
>> stringWithFormat:@"RubyClass.new('%@')", arg]];
>>
>> If I'm adding quite a few objects (300+) to an array in a loop, this line of
>> code is quite slow. My assumption (which may be false) is that either of the
>> 3 options below would be quicker.
>>
>> [RubyClass performSelector:@selector(new:) withObject:arg];
>> [RubyClass new:arg];
>> [[RubyClass alloc] initWithArg:arg];
>>
>> Are any of those options (or an equivalent) a possibility?
>>
>> Alan
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