From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T18:08:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Replicant 0.2 (Ruby -> Javascript)

On 01/08/06, Brian Palmer <rubytalk@brian.codekitchen.net> wrote:
> What it is: Replicant is a Ruby library for automatically converting
> methods on Ruby classes to Javascript classes, and serializing
> instances of those classes from Ruby to Javascript using #to_json.
> I've been developing it mostly in conjunction with some Rails
> projects, but it works just fine outside of Rails, too, as long as
> Prototype.js is available.
>
> Replicant is in a pre-alpha state, though I'm using it in a couple
> production apps online already.

I've been doing a bit of work on the something similar. Did you see this?
http://po-ru.com/diary/convert-ruby-to-javascript/
http://po-ru.com/diary/thoughts-on-ruby-to-javascript-conversion/

That was a quick hack that pointed out some obvious shortcomings (the
languages are similar, but not *that* similar), so I decided to take
another tack and implement something close to Ruby's object model in
JS, so that a wider range of idiomatic Ruby code will work:
http://rb2js.rubyforge.org/

I'll take a closer look over your code later on. Perhaps we might be
able to collaborate...?

Regards,
Paul.

Paul.