Something has changed

Ruby IronRuby
1

Hi
Since this weeks updates to ironruby ironrubymvc is completely broken.

The way overloads are selected now is different.

for example asp.net mvc has a bunch of methods defined on Controller
that
are protected internal ie. protected internal void View(string, string)
it also has an overload View(string, object)

Then it selects the one with object for example in some cases

also I used to be able to call that view method in a ruby subclass of
Controller with view nil, ‘layout’

but now I have to call that with with view ‘’,‘layout’ for it to work
for
example. It doesn’t know that nil can also count as a string object.

There are a bunch of other things that are breaking for example it
doesn’t
like protected internals as much as it used to anymore either.

codeplex?

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Ivan Porto C.
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim
Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero)

2

Just curious, but why should nil count as a string object? In C Ruby,
nil is
an object, and an empty string object is not nil:

irb(main):001:0> n = nil
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> s = String.new
=> “”
irb(main):003:0> n.nil?
=> true
irb(main):004:0> s.nil?
=> false
irb(main):005:0> s == n
=> false
irb(main):006:0> n.class
=> NilClass
irb(main):007:0> s.class
=> String
irb(main):008:0> s.eql? n
=> false

–
Will G.
http://willgreen.mp/

3

In C# you can pass null to a string parameter and it won’t complain I
expected this to work from ironruby too because it did before. So I want
to
find out if that is going to be a permanent change or if it is a bug :slight_smile:

so i’m not talking about an empty instance of String being nil but it’s
about interop with CLR stuff

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Ivan Porto C.
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim
Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero)

4

It would be good to be more specific about the example.

Consider class Foo {
public void Bar(int, object);
public void Bar(int, string);
}

If I call “Foo.new.Bar 1, nil”, then this is an ambiguous call and you
should be forced to specify which overload you want.

In statically-typed languages, variables have types and the declared
type of the variable is used to select an overload at compile time. This
obviously doesn’t work for a dynamically-typed language calling into a
statically-typed API, so we have to use the runtime types to select the
overload. C# dynamic calls face the same issue.

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto
Carrero
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 8:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] something has changed

In C# you can pass null to a string parameter and it won’t complain I
expected this to work from ironruby too because it did before. So I want
to find out if that is going to be a permanent change or if it is a bug
:slight_smile:
so i’m not talking about an empty instance of String being nil but it’s
about interop with CLR stuff

Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations
Ivan Porto C.
Blog: http://flanders.co.nz
Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim
Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero)

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Will G.
<[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Just curious, but why should nil count as a string object? In C Ruby,
nil is an object, and an empty string object is not nil:

irb(main):001:0> n = nil
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> s = String.new
=> “”
irb(main):003:0> n.nil?
=> true
irb(main):004:0> s.nil?
=> false
irb(main):005:0> s == n
=> false
irb(main):006:0> n.class
=> NilClass
irb(main):007:0> s.class
=> String
irb(main):008:0> s.eql? n
=> false

–
Will G.
http://willgreen.mp/

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Ivan Porto C.
<[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Hi

Since this weeks updates to ironruby ironrubymvc is completely broken.

The way overloads are selected now is different.

for example asp.nethttp://asp.net mvc has a bunch of methods defined
on Controller that are protected internal ie. protected internal void
View(string, string)
it also has an overload View(string, object)

Then it selects the one with object for example in some cases

also I used to be able to call that view method in a ruby subclass of
Controller with view nil, ‘layout’

but now I have to call that with with view ‘’,‘layout’ for it to work
for example. It doesn’t know that nil can also count as a string
object.

There are a bunch of other things that are breaking for example it
doesn’t like protected internals as much as it used to anymore either.

codeplex?

Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations
Ivan Porto C.
Blog: http://flanders.co.nz
Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim
Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero)

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5

So the signatures I’m talking about look like this:
protected internal void UpdateModel(TModel model) where
TModel : class {
UpdateModel(model, null, null, null, ValueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model, string

prefix) where TModel : class {
UpdateModel(model, prefix, null, null, ValueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string[]
includeProperties) where TModel : class {
UpdateModel(model, null, includeProperties, null,
ValueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model, string

prefix, string[] includeProperties) where TModel : class {
UpdateModel(model, prefix, includeProperties, null,
ValueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model, string

prefix, string[] includeProperties, string[] excludeProperties) where
TModel
: class {
UpdateModel(model, prefix, includeProperties,
excludeProperties,
ValueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

IDictionary<string, ValueProviderResult> valueProvider) where TModel :
class
{
UpdateModel(model, null, null, null, valueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model, string

prefix, IDictionary<string, ValueProviderResult> valueProvider) where
TModel
: class {
UpdateModel(model, prefix, null, null, valueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string[]
includeProperties, IDictionary<string, ValueProviderResult>
valueProvider)
where TModel : class {
UpdateModel(model, null, includeProperties, null,
valueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model, string

prefix, string[] includeProperties, IDictionary<string,
ValueProviderResult>
valueProvider) where TModel : class {
UpdateModel(model, prefix, includeProperties, null,
valueProvider);
}

    protected internal void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model, string

prefix, string[] includeProperties, string[] excludeProperties,
IDictionary<string, ValueProviderResult> valueProvider) where TModel :
class
{
bool success = TryUpdateModel(model, prefix,
includeProperties,
excludeProperties, valueProvider);
if (!success) {
string message =
String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture,
MvcResources.Controller_UpdateModel_UpdateUnsuccessful,
typeof(TModel).FullName);
throw new InvalidOperationException(message);
}
}

The methods above are defined in ASP.NET MVC but with the current git
build
I can’t call these methods in an inheriting ruby class it will give me
an
error.

when I work around it with:
public new virtual void UpdateModel(TModel model) where
TModel : class
{
UpdateModel(model, null, null, null, ValueProvider);
}

    public new virtual void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model, string

prefix) where TModel : class
{
UpdateModel(model, prefix, null, null, ValueProvider);
}

    public new virtual void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string[]
includeProperties) where TModel : class
{
UpdateModel(model, null, includeProperties, null,
ValueProvider);
}

    public new virtual  void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string
prefix, string[] includeProperties) where TModel : class
{
UpdateModel(model, prefix, includeProperties, null,
ValueProvider);
}

    public new virtual  void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string
prefix, string[] includeProperties, string[] excludeProperties) where
TModel
: class
{
UpdateModel(model, prefix, includeProperties,
excludeProperties,
ValueProvider);
}

    public new virtual  void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

IDictionary<string, ValueProviderResult> valueProvider) where TModel :
class
{
UpdateModel(model, null, null, null, valueProvider);
}

    public new virtual  void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string
prefix, IDictionary<string, ValueProviderResult> valueProvider) where
TModel
: class
{
UpdateModel(model, prefix, null, null, valueProvider);
}

    public new virtual  void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string[]
includeProperties, IDictionary<string, ValueProviderResult>
valueProvider)
where TModel : class
{
UpdateModel(model, null, includeProperties, null,
valueProvider);
}

    public new virtual  void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string
prefix, string[] includeProperties, IDictionary<string,
ValueProviderResult>
valueProvider) where TModel : class
{
UpdateModel(model, prefix, includeProperties, null,
valueProvider);
}

    public new virtual  void UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model,

string
prefix, string[] includeProperties, string[] excludeProperties,
IDictionary<string, ValueProviderResult> valueProvider) where TModel :
class
{
base.UpdateModel(model, prefix,
includeProperties,excludeProperties,valueProvider);
}

things work again in the inheriting controller

def save_user(act)
self.method(:update_model).of(User).call(@user, “user”)

if @user.is_valid
  @membership_service.save @user
  redirect_to_action('index', 'users')
else
  view act.to_s, :layout
end

end

Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations
Ivan Porto C.
Blog: http://flanders.co.nz
Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim
Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero)