The Ruby programming Language - David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto The Well-Grounded Rubyist - David A. Black Programming Ruby - Dave Thomas
None of the above are focussed on the web. Back to Grand Central Dispatch which was really the topic of the post - Dispatch and Dispatch::Group are available from macirb, but Dispatch::Job is not, so I suppose I'm really saying that in trying to discover what is available re GCD for macruby, the current documentation is confusing. On Jan 20, 3:46 pm, Johannes Fahrenkrug <jfahrenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > I always thought the official tutorial on the Ruby site is pretty good: > > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/ > > It is also normal practice to keep non-standard ruby functionality out of > core and distribute is as a gem. That should not discourage you from using > MacRuby or make you doubt that you can use it for Mac development now or in > the future. > > Johannes > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 20.01.2011, at 07:29, David Frantz <websterindus...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > Sent from my iPhone. > > > 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? > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> MacRuby-devel mailing list > >>> macruby-de...@lists.macosforge.org > >>>http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MacRuby-devel mailing list > >> macruby-de...@lists.macosforge.org > >>http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > > MacRuby-devel mailing list > > macruby-de...@lists.macosforge.org > >http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-de...@lists.macosforge.orghttp://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
