[Mapserver-users] ANN: MapScript for Ruby

[Kari Geurts]

Hello Gentlemen,

Just wanted to check in to see if you need me to do anything to help with
this endeavor?  Do you want this available through the website? If so where
should it go? Let me know.

Kari A. Geurts

MDP Coordinator
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
115 Green Hall
1530 Cleveland Ave. N.
St. Paul, MN 55108-6112
Phone: 612-624-3459
Email: kgeurts at gis.umn.edu

> On Feb 2, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
> 
> > Am Montag, 2. Februar 2004 22.30 schrieb Sean Gillies:
> >> I just looked at the patch to mapscript.i.  It won't work with the
> >> next release due to my recent work on the styleObj shadow class
> >>
> >>    http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=548
> >>
> >
> > For this styleObj API only one of the examples has to be changed.
> >
> >> But there's no reason why we can't work together to bring the Ruby
> >> bindings into the fold for the next release.
> >
> > If you add the Ruby bindings (without patch) to the CVS we would fix 
> > the
> > example.
> >
> > Regards
> > Pirmin
> >
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have checked the Ruby files into CVS (HEAD) under mapscript/ruby.  At 
> Steve's
> suggestion I have created two stub interface files: rbmodule.i is for
> Ruby-specific typemaps and such, rbextend.i is for Ruby-specific 
> extensions
> to the shadow classes defined in mapscript.  Each of these files are
> automatically included with mapscript.i for Ruby (look for the #ifdef
> SWIGRUBY directives in mapscript.i).
> 
> The mapscript.i file remains the place where code common to all 
> languages
> will be.
> 
> All that remains to be done is to get CVS access for the Ruby MapScript
> developers and to add the Ruby module to the code which runs SWIG
> nightly.  One note about this is that swig -ruby generates a lot of
> noise as all the MapScript classes are capitalized.  I wish swig -python
> did this!
> 
> Welcome to the neighborhood, Ruby!
> 
> cheers,
> Sean
> 
> --
> Sean Gillies
> sgillies at frii dot com
> http://users.frii.com/sgillies
> 
>