RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins

Re:RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and P... by sandoze on Thursday May 09, 2013 @05:35PM (#5683107)

Fair enough.

Here's how you'd make that class on the fly:

   Class mySubclass = objc_allocateClassPair([NSObject class], "MySubclass", 0);

Here's how you'd add a description method to a newly created class:

   static NSString *Description(id self, SEL _cmd){
        return [NSString stringWithFormat: @"<%@ %p: foo=%@>",[self class], self, [self foo]];
   }

    // add Description to mySubclass
    // grab NSObject's description signature so we can borrow it
    Method description = class_getInstanceMethod([NSObject class],
                                                 @selector(description));
    const char *types = method_getTypeEncoding(description);
    
    // now add
    class_addMethod(mySubclass, @selector(description), (IMP)Description, types);

And your iVars:

   class_addIvar(mySubclass, "foo", sizeof(id), rint(log2(sizeof(id))), @encode(id));

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Re:RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and P... by 10char on Thursday May 09, 2013 @07:23PM (#5683605)

What jballanc is saying is that yes these things are possible in Objective-C, but the technique of doing these tricks in Ruby/Motion is an order of magnitude simpler and idiomatic:

    klass = Object.const_set "MySubclass", Class.new(Object)
    
    klass.send(:attr_accessor, :foo)
 
    klass.send(:define_method, "description") {
      "<#{self.class}: foo=#{self.foo}>"
    }

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