Re: [MacRuby-devel] Any interest in a better debugger than ruby-debug for MacRuby?

2011-02-15 Thread Matt Aimonetti
Hi Rocky, I don't know if you are aware of that, but MacRuby has its own debugger: macrubyc. It does miss a nice UI and Xcode integration but it works quite well, if you were to be contracted out to work on a debugger, you might want to start there. - Matt On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Rocky

Re: [MacRuby-devel] WeakRef advice

2011-02-15 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Hi Alan, Do you control the data structure that holds a reference to 'B'? If yes, you may want to use NSHashTable which supports weak references. To me, this sounds like a design problem. Maybe your project can be re-architectured to avoid this pattern. Laurent On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:22 AM, A

[MacRuby-devel] Any interest in a better debugger than ruby-debug for MacRuby?

2011-02-15 Thread Rocky Bernstein
Is there interest in funding someone to work on a better debugger than ruby-debug MacRuby? Over the last decade or so, I've been writing debuggers as a work-related hobby. I'm looking for work, and I thought maybe I should try to do something related to debuggers. I currently maintain ruby-debug

Re: [MacRuby-devel] WeakRef advice

2011-02-15 Thread Alan Skipp
Hi Laurent, Thanks for the response. In essence the problem I have is something like this: Object 'A' is created, then to handle Key Value Observing, Object 'B' is created which holds an instance variable to Object 'A'. 'B' is held in a hash or array somewhere. Object 'B' only has a purpose whil