# New release of Rockit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 26, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-release-of-rockit/87228 "2006-03-26T04:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-release-of-rockit/87228/1 "2006-03-26T04:39:10Z")
According to this blog entry: > **[The Return of Rockit](https://djberg96.livejournal.com/69529.html)** > > Cue the Herbie Hancock music! Rockit is back . Ok, so there's nothing on the link. But there's a gem. I saw it on the RSS feed for rubygems. What is Rockit? From the gem description: Rockit is a potent parser generator and gives you AST's (Abstract... there’s a new version of Rockit out, but I don’t see anything about it on Rubyforge or RAA. Phil ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-release-of-rockit/87228/2 "2006-03-26T08:24:01Z")
Phil T. wrote: > According to this blog entry: > [The Return of Rockit - Testing 1,2,3... — LiveJournal](http://djberg96.livejournal.com/69529.html) > there’s a new version of Rockit out, but I don’t see anything about it on > Rubyforge or RAA. > > Phil Actually, I think I picked it up off the gem feed, not the RAA feed. Anyway… C:\>gem install rockit Attempting local installation of ‘rockit’ Local gem file not found: rockit\*.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘rockit’ Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) Successfully installed rockit-0.7.1 Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-release-of-rockit/87228/3 "2006-03-26T15:34:18Z")
On 3/26/06, Daniel B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > C:\>gem install rockit > Attempting local installation of ‘rockit’ > Local gem file not found: rockit\*.gem > Attempting remote installation of ‘rockit’ > Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) > Successfully installed rockit-0.7.1 Oops, that was a test release of rubyforge automation which was not meant for public use just yet… 😉 Something is coming fairly soon now though. Regards, Robert ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-release-of-rockit/87228/4 "2006-03-27T10:48:53Z")
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:36:49PM +0900, Robert F. wrote: > incidentely released that gem automatically up to rubyforge and then > the ball was rolling… It’s missing parse/\*, rockit/grammar, etc… ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-release-of-rockit/87228/5 "2006-03-26T15:36:54Z")
> Something is coming fairly soon now though. BTW, I haven’t even tested that 0.7.1 gem myself so not sure everything needed is in there. I was working on my rake script when I incidentely released that gem automatically up to rubyforge and then the ball was rolling… So, beware… /Robert ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-release-of-rockit/87228/6 "2006-03-27T11:16:10Z")
On 3/27/06, Mauricio F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > everything needed is in there. I was working on my rake script when I > > incidentely released that gem automatically up to rubyforge and then > > the ball was rolling… > > It’s missing parse/\*, rockit/grammar, etc… Ok, since it is out there now anyway I will pack up a 0.7.2 so that things at least work. Optimization, error messages and the actual code generation will have to wait though so this is only for the truly interested. I guess at this point I’d mostly like feedback on the way to write grammars in ruby code. Coming up… /RF ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-release-of-rockit/87228/7 "2006-03-27T15:13:47Z")
A 0.7.2 with only stuff that now works is now available on [http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9385/rockit-0.7.2.gem](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9385/rockit-0.7.2.gem) with a README like below. I guess you should also get it by simply doing “sudo gem install rockit” but rubyforge currently gives me the faulty 0.7.1 version (I guess it will soon update any “caches”). More to come… /Robert * * * This is a preview release of the upcoming Rockit 0.8.0. It has _VERY LITTLE_ in the form of documentation and examples so it is mainly for _VERY INTERESTED_ inidividuals who want to check out what is coming. You are also encouraged to give feedback on the “pure-Ruby” way of specing grammars. Lots of stuff that will be in 0.8.0 is not in this release: - Proper memoization (à la packrat) - Optimization - Error reporting - Java grammar - Ruby grammar - many of the good stuff from older Rockit versions (tree pattern matching, fully automated AST generation etc) - GPL only on things related to generation, MIT/BSD on everything needed for using the generated parsers etc (as much as possible) so _BE WARNED_… 😉 * * * If you still want to check this out I suggest you start with the example in tests/acceptance/packrat/minibasic which is a grammar and interpreter for a mini version of Basic. You might also get some background by checking out the starts of a paper describing Rockit (in file rockit\_paper.pdf). * * * If you have comments I’d appreciate if you send them to me at: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Thank you for your interest!