Hi folks,
I am trying to embed the Ruby interpreter into a Cocoa application and
am having some problems. I hope I can find some help here.
My aim is to embed a specific Ruby interpreter into the Cocoa
application (i.e. the ruby interpreter & any necessary files should be
in the app bundle) and execute a script from within the bundle.
In XCode 2.2. (latest version) I have created a Cocoa application.
Then from a fresh ruby-1.8.4 i have copied the libruby-static.a into
the Resources folder of my project and told XCode to copy it to the
app.
Next I started modifying main.m adding:
ruby_init();
ruby_script( “CocoaBug” );
ruby_eval_string( “puts "Path = #{$:}"” );
// rb_load_file( fileName );
ruby_finalize();
However, although the Ruby interpreter seems to work fine, all is not
well. The application correctly prints the contents of $: but I
cannot get it to load the file through rb_load_file.
If I try to preload $: with the path to the Ruby scripts in my app
bundle
NSBundle* mainBundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSString* scriptPath = [mainBundle pathForResource:@"cocoabug"
ofType:@“rb”];
NSString* scriptFolder = [scriptPath
stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];
NSString* operation = @“$: << "”;
operation = [operation stringByAppendingString:scriptFolder];
operation = [operation stringByAppendingString:@“"”];
rb_eval_string( [operation fileSystemRepresentation] );
This code works and sets the $: correctly. However attempts to do
rb_load_file( "cocoabug" )
or
rb_load_file( “cocoabug.rb” )
Both raise load errors.
[Session started at 2006-01-24 21:52:29 +0000.]
Load script: cocoabug.rb
From Folder:
/Users/matt/Projects/RiC/build/Debug/RiC.app/Contents/Resources
Ruby = 1.8.4
Path =
/Users/matt/Projects/RiC/build/Debug/RiC.app/Contents/Resources
(eval): No such file or directory – cocoabug.rb (LoadError)
RiC has exited with status -1.
[Session started at 2006-01-24 21:52:46 +0000.]
Load script: cocoabug
From Folder:
/Users/matt/Projects/RiC/build/Debug/RiC.app/Contents/Resources
Ruby = 1.8.4
Path =
/Users/matt/Projects/RiC/build/Debug/RiC.app/Contents/Resources
(eval): No such file or directory – cocoabug (LoadError)
However attempting the same thing from IRB using:
$:.clear
$: <<
“/Users/matt/Projects/RiC/build/Debug/RiC.app/Contents/Resources”
require “cocoabug”
Works fine.
The alternative approach that I tried was to load the file using the
complete path, i.e.
rb_load_file( [scriptPath fileSystemRepresentation] );
Does not raise a LoadError, but doesn’t appear to work either.
Whatever I put in cocoabug.rb does not get executed including raising
Exception.new which should terminate the whole process.
I’m kinda stumped as to what’s wrong but I’m so new to Cocoa/XCode and
the inner workings of the Ruby interpreter that I’m not sure where to
look next for the problem.
The source code to my app is available from:
blogs.it
If anyone could help me out I’d be much obliged.
Regards,
Matt