Re: [Rubydotnet-developer] rubydotnet - first announcement

[Thomas S. <th...@th...>]

> Does this mean a joint effort is slipping away from all of us? R2 of our
bridge
> includes a C++ extension module as well in approx 300 lines of code (if
that is
> a measure of something).  Additionally, we also have approx. 250 automated
unit
> tests using TestUnit for both the socket and direct C++ versions of the
bridge.
>

Not necessarily. I started my own little project because the threshold to
getting started on the two existing projects was a little high. I needed to
get some basic understanding of the ruby extension model and managed C++
first and besides none of the existing projects had public CVS access to the
latest and greatest making it impossible to contribute. Even if our efforts
are separate and uncoordinated there are still bits and pieces that can
easily be transferred from one project to the other if we agree to do so.

> I like this -- didn't know it was a new feature of module in 1.8.  Can you
do it
> without the "include <namespace>" line?  We really like that our bridge
flattens
> the .NET namespaces (but we can still use the FQN if necessary).

No, you don't have to include System::Collections, I just did that in the
example to show that you can do it, just as you can with native ruby
modules. The trick is the on-demand discovery of classes and namespace which
saves time at start-up and (a lot) of memory without loosing the
ruby-look-and-feel :-). Once discovered the namespace (represented by an
empty ruby module) or class is assigned to a constant the same way as ruby
works itself.

Cheers,

Thomas