Re: [MacRuby-devel] Creating ruby objects in Objective-C

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Skipp
Thanks Laurent, I'd forgotten about performRubySelector:. The ruby class I'm using takes 2 args, one of them a default argument, so I created an initWith method to work around that - problem solved now. Alan On 17 Jan 2011, at 21:51, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > Hi Alan, > > When performing R

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Creating ruby objects in Objective-C

2011-01-17 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Hi Alan, When performing Ruby selectors on Ruby objects from Objective-C, the performRubySelector: method should be used instead of performSelector:, because it takes care of special Ruby semantics such as splat or default arguments. [RubyClass performRubySelector:@selector(new:) withAr

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Creating ruby objects in Objective-C

2011-01-17 Thread Alan Skipp
Hi Eloy, The way I'm initializing the ruby objects is with a custom class method as they must be intialized with arguments. For example, here is the macruby class method: def self.initWithPath(path, isActive:active) new(path, active) end Which means that in Objective-C I'm using the som

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Creating ruby objects in Objective-C

2011-01-17 Thread Eloy Duran
You're welcome Alan :) Hmm, I wonder if this big impact is because of skipping evaling everytime, which iirc is the only thing that evaluateString does, or something else is happening... Have you also tried doing [rubyClass new] instead of alloc init? I thought they should do the same. On 17 j

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Creating ruby objects in Objective-C

2011-01-17 Thread Alan Skipp
Brilliant suggestion Eloy, much appreciated. There's a noticeable improvement in speed using this technique. In the method which added ruby objects to an array, 77% of the time was spent on initialising the objects, that's now down to 35%. Alan On 17 Jan 2011, at 13:32, Eloy Durán wrote: > Aft

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Creating ruby objects in Objective-C

2011-01-17 Thread Eloy Durán
After the Ruby code that defines the class has been evaled, you should be able to do the following: Class rubyClass = NSClassFromString(@"RubyClass"); id rubyObject = [[rubyClass alloc] init]; On Jan 17, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Alan Skipp wrote: > Hi, > Is there any way to inform an Objective-C class

[MacRuby-devel] Creating ruby objects in Objective-C

2011-01-17 Thread Alan Skipp
Hi, Is there any way to inform an Objective-C class of the existence of a ruby class so that instances can be created in Objective-C code? Currently I am doing the following: [[MacRuby sharedRuntime] evaluateString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"RubyClass.new('%@')", arg]]; If I'm adding quite a