# \[ANN\] R-Bus, a native Ruby implementation of D-Bus **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\ **Created:** [March 26, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-r-bus-a-native-ruby-implementation-of-d-bus/90116 "2007-03-26T05:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stoffe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@stoffe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stoffe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-r-bus-a-native-ruby-implementation-of-d-bus/90116/1 "2007-03-26T05:57:51Z")
Hello, just put the source code up at the project page at Rubyforge. Finally found the time to clean it up a bit and polish the docs a little. R-Bus is a native Ruby implementation of the D-Bus protocol, with these goals in mind: - Ruby + standard library is the only dependencies - A Rubyish API, approach and way of doing things - Complete client functionality - A comprehensive test suite Homepage: [http://rbus.rubyforge.org/](http://rbus.rubyforge.org/) Subversion: svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rbus/trunk rbus API, tutorial, etc: [http://rbus.rubyforge.org/doc/](http://rbus.rubyforge.org/doc/) The license is GPL. No gems or tarballs yet, as I want some eyes on both API and code first, it’d be much appreciated! Current status is that it covers pretty much all client functionality apart from exporting objects, which should be one of the things next on the list. It has support for a threaded event loop as well as using the GLib one with the Ruby-GNOME2 bindings. There was some concern earlier over threads, but it works really well so far, and the native Java implementation seems to have a similar approach. It should also be possible to add more loop types without too much problem, I hope. There are some more things that are missing here and there, but what is needed most of all is lots, no _LOTS_ of testing. There’s sure to be plenty of things that do not work as they should, especially in complex marshaling combinations. Also it’s all just tested on one Linux machine so far, so “worked on my machine”-syndrome is probably more fact than possibility. 😉 Both more automated tests as well as example scripts and applications would be more than welcome - also useful scripts in other languages than Ruby would be cool, so they could be translated for testing purposes. See the examples directory for some currently working stuff. There’s plenty more to tell, I’m sure, but for the ones interested, there’s plenty of docs and code to check out, and of course, feel free to ask any questions you may have. Everyone’s invited. 😉 Sorry it took so long, for those who may have waited. Have fun! – Stoffe ## – Kristoffer Lundén ✉ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ✉ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://www.gamemaker.nu/](http://www.gamemaker.nu/) ☎ 0704 48 98 77 Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join [SourceForge.net](http://SourceForge.net)’s Techsay panel and you’ll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash [http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV](http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV) ---
**Author:** ![stoffe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@stoffe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stoffe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-r-bus-a-native-ruby-implementation-of-d-bus/90116/2 "2007-03-27T01:18:22Z")
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 05:56 +0200, Kristoffer Lundén wrote: > - Complete client functionality > > There are some more things that are missing here and there, but what > > There’s plenty more to tell, I’m sure, but for the ones interested, > there’s plenty of docs and code to check out, and of course, feel free > to ask any questions you may have. Everyone’s invited. 😉 > > Sorry it took so long, for those who may have waited. > > Have fun! Hey, very cool. I had a quick look at the tutorial. About the only thing I can comment on is this section: As an extra convenience, if the name and the path has the same components, the latter can be omitted and will be auto-generated. # get ‘/org/freedesktop/Notifications’ object from Notifications notify = bus.get\_object(‘org.freedesktop.Notifications’) Similarities between the object path and bus name are purely coincidental. Actually encoding this relationship is in my opinion not ideal. – John (J5) Palmieri [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) * * * Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join [SourceForge.net](http://SourceForge.net)’s Techsay panel and you’ll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash [http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV](http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV) ---
**Author:** ![stoffe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@stoffe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stoffe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 8:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-r-bus-a-native-ruby-implementation-of-d-bus/90116/3 "2007-03-27T08:00:47Z")
Hello, On 3/27/07, John (J5) Palmieri [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > Hey, very cool. Thanks! > Similarities between the object path and bus name are purely > coincidental. Actually encoding this relationship is in my opinion not > ideal. Fair enough. It seemed like a common enough practice for applications that only exports one object, that it would be useful with a shortcut. No biggie though, I can remove that. 🙂 Thanks for the input, – Stoffe