additionally.. Macruby and rubymotion ( fork? ) are great for cocoa/ios but lack support for many MRI ruby gems out there... (amqp...rails )
I have been burnt on this a number of times... Terry On 22/05/2013, at 5:30 PM, Henry Maddocks <henry.maddo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19/05/2013, at 8:04 PM, david kramf <dakr....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Francis, >> I know nothing about RubyMotion but if I understand correctly it uses a >> compiler and not an interpreter. So I doubt if it can implement >> Metaprogramming and Reflection. If it does not , then it is not a Ruby . It >> might be an excellent language but not Ruby. > > RubyMotion supports most metaprogramming and reflection constructs. The fact > that it is compiled has nothing to do with it. > >> To the best of my understanding Ruby is a very well defined language >> supported by a large community and works in what seems to me ( I know Ruby >> for no more than a year) in a very orderly way. > > This is not the case. There is no specification for Ruby, a fact that is a > concern for those trying to develop alternative implementations. Rubyspec is > a defacto spec but it isn't official, or complete. > > There has also been a lot of discussion in the community recently about the > haphazard way that Ruby seems to be developed. Personally I don't have a > problem with Matz's leadership, but a lot of people do. > > Henry > > _______________________________________________ > 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
