[ANN] R-Bus, a native Ruby implementation of D-Bus

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 05:56 +0200, Kristoffer Lundén wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> just put the source code up at the project page at Rubyforge. Finally
> found the time to clean it up a bit and polish the docs a little.
> 
> R-Bus is a native Ruby implementation of the D-Bus protocol, with
> these goals in mind:
> 
> * Ruby + standard library is the only dependencies
> * A Rubyish API, approach and way of doing things
> * Complete client functionality
> * A comprehensive test suite
> 
> Homepage: http://rbus.rubyforge.org/
> Subversion: svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rbus/trunk rbus
> API, tutorial, etc: http://rbus.rubyforge.org/doc/
> 
> The license is GPL.
> 
> No gems or tarballs yet, as I want some eyes on both API and code
> first, it'd be much appreciated!
> 
> Current status is that it covers pretty much all client functionality
> apart from exporting objects, which should be one of the things next
> on the list.
> 
> It has support for a threaded event loop as well as using the GLib one
> with the Ruby-GNOME2 bindings. There was some concern earlier over
> threads, but it works really well so far, and the native Java
> implementation seems to have a similar approach. It should also be
> possible to add more loop types without too much problem, I hope.
> 
> There are some more things that are missing here and there, but what
> is needed most of all is lots, no *LOTS* of testing. There's sure to
> be plenty of things that do not work as they should, especially in
> complex marshaling combinations. Also it's all just tested on one
> Linux machine so far, so "worked on my machine"-syndrome is probably
> more fact than possibility. ;-)
> 
> Both more automated tests as well as example scripts and applications
> would be more than welcome - also useful scripts in other languages
> than Ruby would be cool, so they could be translated for testing
> purposes. See the examples directory for some currently working stuff.
> 
> There's plenty more to tell, I'm sure, but for the ones interested,
> there's plenty of docs and code to check out, and of course, feel free
> to ask any questions you may have. Everyone's invited. ;-)
> 
> Sorry it took so long, for those who may have waited.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
Hey, very cool.  I had a quick look at the tutorial.  About the only
thing I can comment on is this section:

As an extra convenience, if the name and the path has the same
components, the latter can be omitted and will be auto-generated.

  # get '/org/freedesktop/Notifications' object from Notifications
  notify = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Notifications')

Similarities between the object path and bus name are purely
coincidental.  Actually encoding this relationship is in my opinion not
ideal.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>