Re: [Wxruby-dev] RubyRunner Tool for Mac OS X

[C. B. Schofield]

On 8/13/03 12:50 AM, "Torsten Rueger" wrote:

> I don't have wxRuby yet, so I tried with python. A good test also. In
> short it doesn't work, but that doesn't mean much at this stage.
> For python I need to set PYTHONPATH correctly for my app, how would I
> achieve this with the runner ?

Thanks for the feedback.

Well, you can include command line parameters in the she-bang line of your
script (like #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -C /Users/MyDir), if that helps.  If not,
you'll have to add some setup lines to the source before "[aTask launch]",
like:

[aTask setEnvironment:[NSDictionary
dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"/Users/MyDir", @"PYTHONPATH", nil]];
[aTask setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-w", @"-rdebug"]];
[aTask setCurrentDirectoryPath:@"/Users/MyDir"];
[aTask launch];

If this turns out to be a major shortcoming, I may add a bit of UI to
RubyRunner to allow you to set these parameters on-the-fly.

> Also it would be helpful to be able to read the output, is that possible ?

Yes, you can read the output using the Console application (in
/Applications/Utilities).

However, this brings up an issue I would really like to solve.  I can use
NSTask::setStandardInput and NSTask::setStandardOutput to set the stdin and
stdout of the script, but I haven't figured out how to attach these to a
terminal window.  I don't know if it's even possible, but it sure would be
useful (for debugging, etc.) to be able to get input from the terminal.

Craig