Ironruby core - Jan 2010 - Looking for more information on rubifying C# classes

Hello IronRubyists,

I''m currently hunting around trying to find references on rubifying a
C# class for something I''m writing.

I have a few questions:
- Can you confirm this summary of the process to be correct (am I missing any
steps):
  The generate class intialiser exe parses the attributes out and generates the
initializer file. Then you recompile the library with the added initializer
class included.
  When using load_assembly you pass in the name of the initializer class name as
the second parameter.
  Under the covers that initializer tells IronRuby how to create the ruby API.

- Is there any documentation for the Ruby* attributes? (RubyMethod,
RubyConstant, etc)
I can easily guess at what these are/do, but I just wanted to know if there is a
definitive source.

- What are the differences between require and load_assembly (besides
load_assembly loading the file on every call)

Any answers or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Adam Burmister

The steps sound correct. 

The attributes are pretty easy to understand if you search for existing uses.
The harder part is how to declare the arguments with annotations for Ruby
semantics. http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources has
some info. Please add to it if you can.

Could you provide info about why you need to Rubyify your C# class? IronRuby
already exposes a Rubified view  for all .NET classes (for example, allowing you
to use "lower_case" names for methods)? You need to rubyify your code
mainly if you want strict Ruby semantics as is needed by the builtin library
types.

load_assembly is just more explicit. See
http://ironruby.net/Documentation/.NET/Assemblies. load_assembly does not load
the assembly on every call as .NET does not support reloading an assembly
multiple times. Perhaps it should have been called require_assembly...


-----Original Message-----
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at
rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Adam Burmister
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:53 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: [Ironruby-core] Looking for more information on rubifying C# classes

Hello IronRubyists,

I''m currently hunting around trying to find references on rubifying a
C# class for something I''m writing.

I have a few questions:
- Can you confirm this summary of the process to be correct (am I missing any
steps):
  The generate class intialiser exe parses the attributes out and generates the
initializer file. Then you recompile the library with the added initializer
class included.
  When using load_assembly you pass in the name of the initializer class name as
the second parameter.
  Under the covers that initializer tells IronRuby how to create the ruby API.

- Is there any documentation for the Ruby* attributes? (RubyMethod,
RubyConstant, etc)
I can easily guess at what these are/do, but I just wanted to know if there is a
definitive source.

- What are the differences between require and load_assembly (besides
load_assembly loading the file on every call)

Any answers or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Adam Burmister
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Also, load_assembly calls the library initializers if called with a second
argument which is the namespace within the assembly to look in for the
attributes (RubyMethod, RubyConstant, etc). See
Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Libs\thread.rb as an example for this usage of
load_library.

-----Original Message-----
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at
rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:18 PM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Looking for more information on rubifying C#
classes

The steps sound correct. 

The attributes are pretty easy to understand if you search for existing uses.
The harder part is how to declare the arguments with annotations for Ruby
semantics. http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources has
some info. Please add to it if you can.

Could you provide info about why you need to Rubyify your C# class? IronRuby
already exposes a Rubified view  for all .NET classes (for example, allowing you
to use "lower_case" names for methods)? You need to rubyify your code
mainly if you want strict Ruby semantics as is needed by the builtin library
types.

load_assembly is just more explicit. See
http://ironruby.net/Documentation/.NET/Assemblies. load_assembly does not load
the assembly on every call as .NET does not support reloading an assembly
multiple times. Perhaps it should have been called require_assembly...


-----Original Message-----
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at
rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Adam Burmister
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:53 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: [Ironruby-core] Looking for more information on rubifying C# classes

Hello IronRubyists,

I''m currently hunting around trying to find references on rubifying a
C# class for something I''m writing.

I have a few questions:
- Can you confirm this summary of the process to be correct (am I missing any
steps):
  The generate class intialiser exe parses the attributes out and generates the
initializer file. Then you recompile the library with the added initializer
class included.
  When using load_assembly you pass in the name of the initializer class name as
the second parameter.
  Under the covers that initializer tells IronRuby how to create the ruby API.

- Is there any documentation for the Ruby* attributes? (RubyMethod,
RubyConstant, etc)
I can easily guess at what these are/do, but I just wanted to know if there is a
definitive source.

- What are the differences between require and load_assembly (besides
load_assembly loading the file on every call)

Any answers or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Adam Burmister
_______________________________________________
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Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core

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Tomas has updated http://ironruby.net/Documentation/.NET/Assemblies. Thanks for
the good info, Tomas

-----Original Message-----
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at
rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:48 PM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Looking for more information on rubifying C#
classes

Also, load_assembly calls the library initializers if called with a second
argument which is the namespace within the assembly to look in for the
attributes (RubyMethod, RubyConstant, etc). See
Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Libs\thread.rb as an example for this usage of
load_library.

-----Original Message-----
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at
rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:18 PM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Looking for more information on rubifying C#
classes

The steps sound correct. 

The attributes are pretty easy to understand if you search for existing uses.
The harder part is how to declare the arguments with annotations for Ruby
semantics. http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources has
some info. Please add to it if you can.

Could you provide info about why you need to Rubyify your C# class? IronRuby
already exposes a Rubified view  for all .NET classes (for example, allowing you
to use "lower_case" names for methods)? You need to rubyify your code
mainly if you want strict Ruby semantics as is needed by the builtin library
types.

load_assembly is just more explicit. See
http://ironruby.net/Documentation/.NET/Assemblies. load_assembly does not load
the assembly on every call as .NET does not support reloading an assembly
multiple times. Perhaps it should have been called require_assembly...


-----Original Message-----
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at
rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Adam Burmister
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:53 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: [Ironruby-core] Looking for more information on rubifying C# classes

Hello IronRubyists,

I''m currently hunting around trying to find references on rubifying a
C# class for something I''m writing.

I have a few questions:
- Can you confirm this summary of the process to be correct (am I missing any
steps):
  The generate class intialiser exe parses the attributes out and generates the
initializer file. Then you recompile the library with the added initializer
class included.
  When using load_assembly you pass in the name of the initializer class name as
the second parameter.
  Under the covers that initializer tells IronRuby how to create the ruby API.

- Is there any documentation for the Ruby* attributes? (RubyMethod,
RubyConstant, etc)
I can easily guess at what these are/do, but I just wanted to know if there is a
definitive source.

- What are the differences between require and load_assembly (besides
load_assembly loading the file on every call)

Any answers or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Adam Burmister
_______________________________________________
Ironruby-core mailing list
Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core

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Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core

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