September 2005 Archives

Add one part OmniGraffle 4, one part applescript, one part ruby, and a dash of animosity towards SQL and you get the following lovely lovely dish:

From absolutely nothing to a running rails app in under two minutes. SQL not required.

(if you have problems with the url, try the original instead... just be nice to my server please)

• Plethora of passing unit-tests: check
• Simple reproducible system: check
• Ability to override core classes: check
• Binary with our core classes: check
• Segfaults: check

% cd MR
% make libmetaruby.a
...
% cd RUBY
% patch -p0 < metaruby.patch
...
% ./configure --program-prefix=meta
...
% cp ~/Links/MR/libmetaruby.a .
% make metaruby
...
% ./metaruby bin/irb 
irb(main):001:0> 1+1
=> 2
irb(main):002:0> false
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:298: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-10) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]

It is time to split the tail of ruby2c and start making a translator for ruby internals. So far we've only done generic C.

We are very close... very very close...