Modding in Ruby

[trajing]

As you can probably tell, I'm a bit more into Ruby than the average person.
So, on a whim, I decided to check if JRuby, a JVM version of Ruby, as opposed to the C-based interpreter, could compile Ruby source to Java bytecode.
It could.
It also had things that allowed me to import Java classes to use in Ruby.
The Ruby version of my main mod file isn't up on the Github repository yet, and the Java version certainly isn't, but for when I do push it to the repo, take a look here.
At the moment, I'm restricting myself to simple blocks and items, but hopefully, once I learn enough, it will actually become feasible to write fully-featured mods in Ruby.

 

[Strikingwolf]

That's interesting... I still love Java though <3

Oh, @Strikingwolf

Yes I like this...if only it was in Clojure

I need to see if I can do that...

 

[trajing]

The main class should be up tomorrow.

 

[Strikingwolf]

The main class should be up tomorrow.

Awesome \o/

 

[ljfa]

I'm excited so see what you come up with.
So you can use Java annotations there?

 

[trajing]

I'm excited so see what you come up with.
So you can use Java annotations there?

Yes, with the java_annotation function.

 

[trajing]

Okay, first commit done. It may or may not fail horribly, I'm about to test.

 

[trajing]

..and too many errors to count.
Let's call try one a failure. Anyone want to try and help?
*pokes @Strikingwolf*

 

[Strikingwolf]

..and too many errors to count.
Let's call try one a failure. Anyone want to try and help?
*pokes @Strikingwolf*

/me is not touching this

 

[trajing]

/me is not touching this

Yes, the Java part does indeed look ugly.

 

[ljfa]

..and too many errors to count.
Let's call try one a failure. Anyone want to try and help?
*pokes @Strikingwolf*

Maybe tomorrow, but I'm not familiar with Ruby.

BTW: y u no just use String rather than StringBuilder?

 

[trajing]

Maybe tomorrow, but I'm not familiar with Ruby.

BTW: y u no just use String rather than StringBuilder?

On the Java side? That's what JRuby compiled it to when I ran it through jrubyc. Also, make sure you install JRuby instead of the C-based interpreter.

 

[ljfa]

I got it to compile but I had to change

import Mod;
import EventHandler;
import FMLInitializationEvent;

in the java file to

import cpw.mods.fml.common.Mod;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.Mod.EventHandler;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.event.FMLInitializationEvent;

And I had to put the jruby.jar into the libs folder so that gradle can find it there. I have no idea how to properly declare this dependency in gradle though.
I also had to put the jruby.jar in the mods folder.

But it fails on startup with this:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
.....
Caused by: org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (NameError) undefined local variable or method `cpw' for main:Object
at RUBY.(root)(MCModRB.rb:5)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:148)

 

[ljfa]

For some reason, I can't get jrubyc to work:

NameError: missing class or uppercase package name (`org.jruby.compiler.impl.StandardASMCompiler'), caused by (NameError) cannot load Java class org.jruby.compiler.impl.StandardASMCompiler