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Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)

Community
Ruby
Topics
Language Design,
Domain Specific Languages,
Language,
Compilers,
Code Analysis

In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite shows how to write Ruby that reads, writes, and rewrites Ruby. The demos include extending the Ruby language with conditional expressions, new forms of evaluation such as call-by-name and call-by-need, and more.

News about ParseTree

The Future of ParseTree

Community
Ruby
Topics
Code Analysis,
Runtimes

The current Ruby 1.9.1 doesn't have the required features to allow ParseTree's runtime features to work - which means some libraries that depend on those features won't work. Examples are Merb's action arguments or heckle. We take a look at the state of ParseTree - and how ruby_parser is a possible way out.

RFactor: Ruby Refactoring Support for Text Editors

Community
Agile,
Ruby
Topics
RubyGems,
Agile Techniques,
IDE

RFactor is a Ruby refactoring tool that aims to bring automated refactoring support to text editors. We talked to its developer Fabio Kung to learn how it works and what's planned for the future.

Sequel, The Database Toolkit For Ruby

Community
Ruby
Topics
Data Access,
Ruby on Rails

Sequel, apart from being an alternative to ActiveRecord, offers a complete Ruby toolkit to handle database operations. InfoQ had the chance to catch up with Jeremy Evans who replaced Sharon Rosner as project leader eight months ago.

Merb Roundup: Merb 1.0, EngineYard Will Offer Merb Support

Community
Ruby
Topics
Language,
Web Frameworks,
JRuby,
RubyGems

Merb 1.0 has been released. Some last minute changes included improved JRuby and Windows support (action arguments support under JRuby). Also: EngineYard announced support for Merb.

Static Analysis Tools Roundup: Roodi, Rufus, Reek, Flay

Community
Ruby
Topics
Language,
Programming

Ruby_parser, ParseTree, and it's cleaned up output UnifiedRuby, provide access to Ruby source code ASTs. We take a look at four static analysis tools built in plain Ruby: Flay, Roodi, Rufus, Reek.

ParseTree 3.0 Released, Many Related Libraries Updated

Community
Ruby
Topics
Release,
RubyGems

Ryan Davis announced the release of ParseTree 3.0, as well as an update to related libraries: Ruby2Ruby and Flog. Sexp_processor, the library to write visitors for analyzing parse tree s-exprs was split out as a gem. Also: ruby_parser 2.0, a Ruby parser written in Ruby, was released with many improvements.

MacRuby 0.3 Release Brings Interface Builder Support, HotCocoa for GUI Building

Community
Ruby
Topics
Runtimes,
Dynamic Languages,
Rich Client / Desktop

MacRuby 0.3 was released with many improvements, among them support for GUIs built with the InterfaceBuilder. Also: HotCocoa, a Builder-style API for Cocoa GUIs is shipped with the new release of MacRuby.

Using ParseTree for LINQ-style queries and extracting metadata

Community
Ruby
Topics
Code Analysis,
Domain Specific Languages,
Language

Whether it's LISP macros or LINQ's expression trees - access to the AST of code is a powerful tool. We look at how ParseTree allows this in Ruby - and how it's being used in libraries like Ambition, Sequel and the web framework Merb.