Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Calling Ruby from existing Cocoa App

[Jonathan P. <jp...@dc...>]

On 1 Feb 2006, at 18:51, David wrote:

> From my existing Cocoa app I would like to pass several NSArray's  
> to Ruby, manipulate them in Ruby, serialize the arrays in JSON  
> format, and return that data back to Cocoa.  Does this seem like a  
> reasonable task for the RubyCocoa bridge?
>
> I see ruby 1.8+ has a to_yaml method for objects but how do I  
> produce JSON format for the arrays?

Assuming you have an NSArray instance my_array in ruby, can you just do:

   manipulate(my_array.to_a).to_yaml

i.e., convert the NSArray to a real ruby Array, do some stuff on it,  
then convert that array to yaml/json?