opal/opal

Ruby in the Browser

Ilya Bylich

@iliabylich

But this gem is designed to be used directly by Opal. It has all files in the opal directory (and the lib directory contains the code the pushes opal dir to the opal's load path)

If you really want to use opal executable you can write something like

$ opal -I../opal-browser/opal --gem paggio --compile your_code.rb

(if opal-browser is in ../opal-browser)

If you compile it from the ruby code (using opal's builders and compilers) you can simply write require 'opal-browser' before compiling the code to register all paths

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

@iliabylich : OK, I'll try that - thanks for your help

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

@iliabylich : Actually, that didn't work so well. Even after doing Opal.eval("require 'browser/socket'"); => true ... Browser::Socket remains undefined ... hrm

Ilya Bylich

@iliabylich

@mistergibson Don't do eval, it doesn't help. Everything that you need must be required in the main .rb file.

Could you share your file please?

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

Ah, is eval in a differing name space?

I'll cobble a gist for you ...

https://gist.github.com/mistergibson/37f7a3f0afbd19b1d138d1544ca5ac5a

Sorry for all the pestering - I'm just still giddy with the prospect of coding in Ruby .... IN a webpage! Awesome.

Mitch VanDuyn

@catmando

Is there any known issue (or changes in behavior) in Opal 0.11 around the second parameter of const_get and const_defined?

specifically we have code with const_get(xxx, false) (meaning do not search down tree) and it broke in Opal 0.11

Elia Schito

@elia

@catmando the const lookup was rewritten, as far as you know the new behavior differs from MRI?

here's the new code: https://github.com/opal/opal/blob/7ecfd4bb04cedab39339e01d1b674e44345bbceb/opal/corelib/module.rb#L310-L316

Mitch VanDuyn

@catmando

we don't know in detail.... just got a report from @sfcgeorge that code which was working with const_get(xxx, false) or perhaps const_defined? stopped working in 11, until he changed false to true.

that is all I know ATM

Elia Schito

@elia

@catmando ok, that could be a collateral effect of the improved behavior, @sfcgeorge let me know what's that, if it's an actual issue I'd like to look into it

Mitch VanDuyn

@catmando

@elia is there any way to run try opal on older versions?

Simon George

@sfcgeorge

A version selector on Try Opal would be amazingly helpful.

In this case I just know that making the second parameter true made something work in 0.11 that had worked in 0.10. I don't know which one the bug is in though, just because it worked before doesn't mean it was working as intended.

Elia Schito

@elia

@catmando no, but you can run the CLI on any installed version with opal _0.10.5_ -e 'p RUBY_ENGINE_VERSION'

@sfcgeorge yeah, 0.11 catched a bunch of errors in one of my apps

Mitch VanDuyn

@catmando

@elia :-) I have never used the CLI

I will try it now :-)

is there an opal irb ?

Mitch VanDuyn

@catmando

@elia - just using some simple tests I can see no behavior change...

Elia Schito

@elia

@catmando there's opal-repl, it needs thrubyracer IIRC

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

@elia I'm having trouble adding methods to class String - is this unsupported?

Elia Schito

@elia

should work fine, unless you're trying to mutate the string, inheriting from String it's more of a hackery but still supported

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

no, it mainly is for some methods that do regex matching

Elia Schito

@elia

@mistergibson can you paste your attempt here?

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

yeah, I'll whip up a gist for you

Here you go: https://gist.github.com/mistergibson/d33f4154755c7bd5498f9fc464e9d290

Elia Schito

@elia

Looks good, what kind of error are you getting?

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

This: uncaught exception: TypeError: can't convert String into Kernel::String (String#to_str gives String

I was surprised

Elia Schito

@elia

Seems to be working here, p "AsdfAasdf".split_camelcase resulted in ["Asdf", "Aasdf"]

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

I wonder what the deal is?

it won't even accept my method defs

it must be in the way I'm building the bootstrap

Elia Schito

@elia

maybe it's some weird interaction due to all those requires, try removing most of them and see if it works, if it does then you can start looking for the one to blame

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

sure

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

Hrm ... loaded it right after 'opal/full' and got the same error - never makes it to the other requires.

Elia Schito

@elia

have you tried just with 'opal'?

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

That's my next stop :)

Same error

so .... require 'opal' ... then the .rb file on require_remote gives the error.

Elia Schito

@elia

gotta go to sleep :crescent_moon: , I'll read tomorrow :wave:

G. Gibson

@mistergibson

ok ... sleep tight :)

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