Ok, forgive me for this question as I'm not a practicing Ruby programmer but
why would Dispatch not be part of Mac Ruby?
For those wondering why I've been hanging out here for the last couple of
months it is due to the thought that Mac Ruby might become an officially
supported platform for Mac development. So I'm trying to wrap my head around
why people would use it (Ruby) instead of C/C++/Objective C or Python for that
matter. Frankly I think I need convincing in another way so the next question
is this, is there a good intro to Ruby that isn't oriented to web development?
My interest in the web is close to zero and unfortunately most Ruby books seem
to be focused there. Either that or my mind just isn't oriented to the Ruby
way.
David A Frantz
websterindustro4at4mac.com
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On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Mark Rada <mr...@marketcircle.com> wrote:
> The dispatch library was removed from the core just before the 0.8 release.
> Someone is maintaining it as a gem.
>
> I thought the dispatch library only had the Enumerable module extensions, but
> I guess it had the Job class as well since I also don't have it (using a 0.9
> nightly build).
>
> Someone who has better knowledge than me might be able to answer your
> questions more thoroughly.
>
>
> Mark Rada
> mr...@marketcircle.com
>
>
>
> On 2011-01-20, at 9:48 AM, Martin Hawkins wrote:
>
>> I was looking at the short intro to GCD in Matt's book 'Macruby - The
>> Definitive Guide'
>>
>> I have macruby 0.8 and I come across an immediate problem
>> macirb --simple-prompt
>>>> require 'dispatch'
>> LoadError: no such file to load -- dispatch
>>
>> However, it knows about Dispatch:
>> macirb --simple-prompt
>>>> @queue = Dispatch::Queue.new('a-queue-name')
>> => a-queue-name
>>
>> but it doesn't know about Job:
>> macirb --simple-prompt
>>>> job = Dispatch::Job.new { slow_operation }
>> NameError: uninitialized constant Dispatch::Job
>>
>> and, finally, the line on p24, 'To see the available concurrent
>> enumerable methods'
>> macruby -rdispatch -e "puts [].methods.grep(/^p_/)"
>> no such file to load -- dispatch (LoadError)
>> which, I suppose, just reiterates the first point.
>>
>> Is there an 'official' site where I can post queries regarding this
>> book?
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