[Rubycocoa-talk] Translating Obj-C Into Ruby

[s.ross <cw...@gm...>]

I've been mostly successful translating pertinent Apple Obj-C  
signatures into Ruby, but the ones here:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html

in listing 1, are baffling me. I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to  
be delegating to, so I get Objective-C method signature for selector  
'delegate:method:' of receiver #<here's what I don't know>.

I've seen some examples of synchronous HTTP requests, but this seems  
more the way Apple advocates. Here's my code (not working) for  
reference:

class Controller < NSObject
   include OSX

     def sendRPCTest
     # Code modeled after: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001836

     theRequest =  
NSURLRequest::requestWithURL_cachePolicy_timeoutInterval(
       NSURL::URLWithString("http://www.apple.com/"),
       0,
       60.0)

     # Ok, here's the sticky part. I can't figure out how to get the  
connection, given the request
     delegate_method ???what??? do
       theConnection = NSURLConnection::initWithRequest(self)
     end

     if theConnection
       @receivedData = nil
     else
       NSLog("no data to download")
     end
   end
end

Thanks in advance,

Steve