Yes, that's what I was suspecting and the "self." prefix was exactly what I was 
missing :) (And I just noticed "YES" is not available in MacRuby.)

The following works then:

  def self.autosavesInPlace
    return true
  end

Thanks,
Sven

On Oct 8, 2011, at 17:36, Keith Gautreaux wrote:

> I'm not a Macruby expert and I don't know anything about Cocoa,
> particularly as it relates to new Lion features such as autosave, but
> the example code you gave is defining an instance method, not a class
> method.
> 
> To override a class method you would need to do something like:
> 
> class MyDocument < NSPersistentDocument
> 
> ...
> 
>  def self.autosavesInPlace
>    return YES
>  end
> end
> 
> There are other ways of defining class methods but this is the easiest
> when you just have one method.
> 
> HTH
> 
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Sven A. Schmidt <s...@abstracture.de> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm trying to add autosave and versions to an application and as far as I 
>> can tell from the docs it should be as simple as overriding 
>> +(BOOL)autosavesInPlace to return YES from my core data document 
>> application. So what I have is essentially:
>> 
>> class MyDocument < NSPersistentDocument
>> 
>>  ...
>> 
>>  def autosavesInPlace
>>    return YES
>>  end
>> 
>> end
>> 
>> However, I don't get autosave or versions behavior (i.e. I've still got the 
>> "dirty dot", no versions menu in the title bar etc). Also, autosavesInPlace 
>> doesn't seem to get called. When I print a log message in there it never 
>> shows up in the console.
>> 
>> Should this be working the way I'm doing it? Unfortunately, I don't have a 
>> Cocoa application to compare (yet) so I'm not sure if I'm doing something 
>> wrong at the frameworks end or on the MacRuby side.
>> 
>> One thing I was wondering (since I'm rather new to both Ruby and MacRuby): 
>> I'm overriding a class method here (+(BOOL), not -(BOOL)), is there anything 
>> special I need to consider when doing this from MacRuby?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Sven
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
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