Comments on: Rubinius for the Layman, Part 2: How Rubinius is Friendly http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/ Rambling about programming and life as a programmer - by Mathieu Martin Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:43:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Brian Hogg http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-185 Brian Hogg Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:10:29 +0000 http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-185 How dare you call me a lazy reader! It's not like I just skipped to the bottom to see how many people commented... ;) How dare you call me a lazy reader! It’s not like I just skipped to the bottom to see how many people commented… ;)

]]> By: This Week in Ruby (April 21, 2008) | Zen and the Art of Programming http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-174 This Week in Ruby (April 21, 2008) | Zen and the Art of Programming Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:20:26 +0000 http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-174 [...] Other interesting articles were Converting Groovy to Ruby by Charlie Nutter, Symbols are not pretty strings and the second part of Rubinius for the Layman. [...] […] Other interesting articles were Converting Groovy to Ruby by Charlie Nutter, Symbols are not pretty strings and the second part of Rubinius for the Layman. […]

]]> By: webmat http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-165 webmat Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:37:26 +0000 http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-165 In fact at any moment you can request the current MethodContext, which represents the method you're in. From that you can start exploring in much more detail what was up the call stack, yes. <br /> I haven't explored more than what I showed at the presentation so I don't want to say crazy things before I explore them myself ;-) <br /> I'm actually wondering whether my next article should present that and the debugging facilities of Rubinius. Or if I should show how easy get up and running with Rubinius with a quick tutorial... We'll see :-) In fact at any moment you can request the current MethodContext, which represents the method you’re in. From that you can start exploring in much more detail what was up the call stack, yes.
I haven’t explored more than what I showed at the presentation so I don’t want to say crazy things before I explore them myself ;-)
I’m actually wondering whether my next article should present that and the debugging facilities of Rubinius. Or if I should show how easy get up and running with Rubinius with a quick tutorial… We’ll see :-)

]]> By: Jean-Francois Couture http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-164 Jean-Francois Couture Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:46:17 +0000 http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-164 The backtrace is in ruby, so I could like monkey patch it when debugging a nasty problem and have it print all kinds stuff from the MethodContext and other rubinius voodoo? Right? The backtrace is in ruby, so I could like monkey patch it when debugging a nasty problem and have it print all kinds stuff from the MethodContext and other rubinius voodoo? Right?

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]]> By: webmat http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-161 webmat Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:42:42 +0000 http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-161 @rue: Indeed I intend to talk about it. I showed a bit about MethodContext in my presentation a while ago :-) <br /> That's what a friend was referring to in a comment on the previous article, when he said "don't forget about the metaprogrammer’s wet dreams" ;-) @rue: Indeed I intend to talk about it. I showed a bit about MethodContext in my presentation a while ago :-)
That’s what a friend was referring to in a comment on the previous article, when he said “don’t forget about the metaprogrammer’s wet dreams” ;-)

]]> By: rue http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-160 rue Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:11:47 +0000 http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-160 Well done again! This is exactly what Rubinius is about from the Ruby programmer's perspective. The Ruby-in-Ruby approach really does mean a lot of freedom--one source of endless amusement for me is <code>mc = MethodContext.current</code> which exposes what can be thought of as the "stack frame" of the currently executing method (and allows moving up and down among many other useful things, check <code>mc.methods</code>.) I suspect webmat intends to explore this in the future, too, but in the meanwhile it is a fun place to start for the casual code adventurer. The debugger is another excellent learning tool. Well done again! This is exactly what Rubinius is about from the Ruby programmer’s perspective. The Ruby-in-Ruby approach really does mean a lot of freedom–one source of endless amusement for me is mc = MethodContext.current which exposes what can be thought of as the “stack frame” of the currently executing method (and allows moving up and down among many other useful things, check mc.methods.) I suspect webmat intends to explore this in the future, too, but in the meanwhile it is a fun place to start for the casual code adventurer. The debugger is another excellent learning tool.

]]> By: webmat http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-158 webmat Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:08:00 +0000 http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-158 @James: I actually meant for the default filters. But it's probably not a huge fix :-) <br /> And I'd guess most times we wouldn't necessarily need to see the internals of the Ruby runtime. @James: I actually meant for the default filters. But it’s probably not a huge fix :-)
And I’d guess most times we wouldn’t necessarily need to see the internals of the Ruby runtime.

]]> By: James Golick http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-157 James Golick Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:46:30 +0000 http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/#comment-157 Actually, we wrote QB to emulate rubinius's awesome backtraces. I'm not sure what exactly we'd want to filter in these babies; they look pretty sweet already. Actually, we wrote QB to emulate rubinius’s awesome backtraces. I’m not sure what exactly we’d want to filter in these babies; they look pretty sweet already.

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