Rash of Ruby Releases

Published 2005-07-14 @ 01:04

Tagged ruby, parsetree, ruby2c, rubyinline, toys

Toys

I just finished releasing a WHOLE bunch o’ stuff, all gemified and cleaned up, mainly so that we could contribute the following solution to this week’s ruby quiz (serializable procs):

require 'r2c_hacks'
class ProcStore # We have to have this because yaml calls allocate on Proc
  def initialize(&proc)
    @p = proc.to_ruby
  end

  def call(*args)
    eval(@p).call(*args)
  end
end

code = ProcStore.new { |x| return x+1 }
=> #<ProcStore:0x3db25c @p="proc do |x|\n  return (x + 1)\nend">

OK, well, that obviously isn’t the whole solution, but now that we’ve added Proc.to_ruby, it really is that simple. To see how simple it really is, check out our implementation:

class Proc
  ProcStoreTmp = Class.new unless defined? ProcStoreTmp
  def to_ruby
    ProcStoreTmp.send(:define_method, :myproc, self)
    m = ProcStoreTmp.new.method(:myproc)
    result = m.to_ruby.sub!(/def myproc\(([^\)]+)\)/, 'proc do |\1|')
    return result
  end
end

We would have bypassed ProcStore entirely had we known how to get YAML to not call allocate on Proc when it was loading a proc back in. But, we were tired.

The Releases!

We released the following:

RubyInline 3.4.0 with:

+ 2 minor enhancements:
    + Changed inline to take the language and a hash of options.
        + Still backwards compatible, for now, and emits a warning.
    + Options are available via the builder passed to your block.
+ 2 bug fixes:
    + Modified caller discovery, yet again, due to changes in ruby 1.8.3.
    + More compatible and clean with non-gems systems.

ParseTree 1.3.7 with:

+ 3 bug fixes:
    + Fixed rubygem requires for non-gem systems.
    + Renamed on to on_error_in to make more clear.
    + Moved exceptions to their own tree to make catching cleaner.

ruby2c 1.0.0 beta 4 with:

+ 1 minor enhancements
    + Added gemspec (hastily).
+ 2 bug fixes
    + Translates bool type to VALUE since we were using Qtrue/Qfalse.
    + Fixed rubygems for non-gem systems.

and finally ZenHacks 1.0.1 with:

+ 4 minor enhancements:
    + Added Graph#save and edge accessors for customizations.
    + Added Proc#to_ruby in r2c_hacks.
    + Added RubyToRuby#rewrite_defn to support bmethods (read: procs).
    + Added Class#optimize(*methods) to zenoptimize.
    + Added bin/nopaste for cmdline access to nopaste on rafb.net.
    + Added bin/quickbench to generate ruby benchmark templates quickly.
+ 4 bug fixes:
    + Fixed gems for non-gem systems.
    + Fixed minor output problem with RubyToRuby#process_defn.
    + Added some minor (performance) enhancements to zenoptimize.
    + Added requirements to gemspec to quell whining.