From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T01:05:04+09:00
Subject: [ANN] RubyJS 0.6 - pre-RubyConf version

Hi all,

After 9 months, the second incarnation of RubyJS is out (a complete rewrite). 
RubyJS compiles Ruby to Javascript and tries to be as efficient as possible
without sacrifying Ruby's beauty.

This is a pre-release. I hope I can import some local code that lies here around 
till RubyConf.

A small example:

   # hw.rb
   require 'rwt/DOM'

   class HelloWorld
     def self.main
       out = DOM.getElementById('out')
       DOM.setInnerText(out, 'hello world')
     end
   end

   <!-- index.html -->
   <html>
     <body>
       <script src="hw.js"></script>
       <a href="#" onclick="main()">say hello</a>
       <div id="out"/>
     </body>
   </html>


Compile it:

   rubyjs_gen --main HelloWorld hw.rb > hw.js

And start index.html inside your browser.
Oh, and don't forget the optimization flags:

   rubyjs_gen --show-options


What works?
===========

   * Most if not all Ruby constructs!
   * Accessing/modifying DOM in your browser
   * JSON

What is missing?
================

   * The port of Google Web Toolkit is not yet completed.
   * Applications ;-)
   * A lot of methods in the core library

DOWNLOAD
=========

It's available from:

http://ntecs.de/hg-projects/rubyjs/

Best use Mercurial (www.selenic.com/mercurial) to check it out:

   hg clone static-http://ntecs.de/hg-projects/rubyjs/


Have fun and see you at RubyConf!

Regards,

   Michael