Re: [MacRuby-devel] Mixing ruby code with Objective-C code within a Cocoa project...

2010-10-25 Thread Frederick C. Lee
I can see the use of Ruby in doing some intense data massaging, like string/math/dates sort of processing that would be quite verbose in Objective C. I'm thinking of using Ruby in place of plain 'C' (or Perl) in doing some rudimentary stuff such as that. I'm somewhat aware of the Ruby/Objective

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Mixing ruby code with Objective-C code within a Cocoa project...

2010-10-22 Thread Alistair Holt
Hi Ric I think I'm right in saying that you can mix the two languages but not in the same file. Also, you wont be able to use Ruby to write anything for iOS as it's not currently supported. -- Alistair Holt On 22 Oct 2010, at 18:32, "Frederick C. Lee" wrote: > Greetings: > I'm a MacRuby n

[MacRuby-devel] Mixing ruby code with Objective-C code within a Cocoa project...

2010-10-22 Thread Frederick C. Lee
Greetings: I'm a MacRuby neophyte and wonder if I'll be able to mix Ruby with Objective-C, similar to the ability to write Objective-C++ code. I'm particularly interested in exploiting the power of Ruby's terse language to aid in Objective-C projects; preferably for iOS. Or... would I have to