Hi, It would be nice to have Telepathy applications in Ruby. Ruby already has a D-Bus port [1] and a Gtk binding [2], so I started to write a tool inspired from Telepathy Inspector [3].
[1] Ruby D-Bus: http://trac.luon.net/ruby-dbus/ [2] Ruby-GNOME2: http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ [3] Telepathy Inspector http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/TelepathyInspector My tool use the Glib main loop ; Ruby D-Bus is able to use the Glib main loop too. It calls some D-Bus methods and subscribe to a few signals to update the window when the presence changes. You can see the screencast thanks to Istanbul: http://dede.muadda.org/~alban/d/2007/11/rti.ogm Or try yourself: darcs get http://dede.muadda.org/~alban/darcs/ruby_telepathy_inspector/ cd ruby_telepathy_inspector/src/ # start Empathy before continue ruby ./rti.rb It still need works. For example, Telepathy constants I need are manually copied/pasted from the spec into telepathy.rb. Methods are discovered automatically with D-Bus introspection, but it is not entirely clean: to call the method GetProtocol from the org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection interface, I use: @protocol = @connection_iface.GetProtocol[0] The [0] is needed to get the first item in the array of out parameters. I can also write: @protocol, = @connection_iface.GetProtocol but I would prefer to be able to write: @protocol = @connection_iface.GetProtocol -- Alban _______________________________________________ Telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
