Is "require" supported in RubyMotion for OS X? What about Ruby gems? Can one just compile his/her own MacRuby project using RubyMotion without making any (major) changes?
- Matt On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:26 PM, stephen horne <fat...@gmail.com> wrote: > From what I understand, the only thing missing in Rubymotion is eval() > > There's an article by Clay Allsop about meta-programming in Rubymotion at > http://clayallsopp.com/posts/rubymotion-metaprogramming/ > > I tested to see if eval() works in desktop Rubymotion apps (I read > somewhere that the reason it's not included is due to Apple restrictions on > run-time code evaluation in iOS, rather than a limit of Rubymotion), but it > doesn't. > > fb > > david kramf <dakr....@gmail.com> > 17/05/2013 13:19 > > Is RubyMotion a full Ruby. Does it support reflection and metaprograming? > Thanks, David Kramf > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel > Francis Chong <fran...@ignition.hk> > 17/05/2013 12:15 > While I'm really happy about OS X support on RubyMotion, it is not a > replacement for MacRuby. > > IMHO MacRuby is far superior: > > It offer JIT compiler, you develop orders of magnitude faster as you dont > need clean and rebuild every time. > > You have full ruby compatibility, load standard library as you wish. > > It loads gems and framework dynamically like what you would expected from > regular ruby. > > You don't have to write new gems, or rewrite them. Many gems just work, > even native ones could work. > > You can use regular technique for meta programming, and generally you > don't enter a uncanny valley between dynamic language and static build > system. > > Some of these limitations are inherited from RubyMotion due to iOS > restriction, I don't see them going away anytime soon. > > That said, RubyMotion team is the ones who know most of MacRuby, and > their direction is not like MacRuby in past. If you are going to develop > Mac app, your best choice is probably go RubyMotion, or just use > Objective-C. > — > Sent from Mailbox <https://bit.ly/SZvoJe> for iPhone > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel > >
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