I am a newbie when it comes to using Cocoa (and by no means a Ruby expert), so I've only seen a few patterns in Cocoa stuff.
A pattern I tried the other day was to use a procs where Cocoa wants a callback object/method for delegation. This is as close to using blocks as I can get when they don't have versions of the method that takes a block. It seems to be broken right now (logged a bug the other day). Mark Rada mr...@marketcircle.com On 2011-02-04, at 3:57 PM, Caio Chassot wrote: > On 2011-02-04, at 01:26 , Rich Morin wrote: >> >> One of my concerns with both MacRuby and JRuby is >> that the resulting code doesn't look much like Ruby. > > I'm sure the situation in JRuby land is worse, but generally, using Cocoa > stuff from MacRuby feels enough like ruby, save for the HorridCamelCase, but > I've gotten used to that. > > One other issue that annoys me tremendously is passing NSError pointers. I've > created this generic wrapper to raise ruby exceptions instead: > > https://github.com/kch/aliastool/blob/master/src/raisins.rb > > E.g.: > > raisingNSError { |e| > NSURL.bookmarkDataWithContentsOfURL(alias_url, error:e) } > > I'd be curious to see other snippets that make MacRuby look more like Ruby, > but mostly… > > > I don't think there's an easy way out of this. Whenever someone gets into a > new language, they'll first try to shoehorn it into the language they're > familiar with. Java coders will write ruby that looks like Java. ObjC coders > will write code that looks like ObjC. And especially, Noob coders will write > n00b code. Even python people coming to ruby wtite like it is verbosefest. > Most post-Ruby-on-Rails ruby code I've seen is a crazy mess of pointless > assignments and neverending if-then-elsery. > /rant > > Eventually people learn, but they won't go after a book until they realize > there's a problem with the way they write code. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
