Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace. It embeds the
Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime as a C extension. This release
squashes many, many bugs and segfaults.
Changes:
### 1.2.0 / 2010-01-25
* Add an API for registering custom conversions.
* Subclass Runtime, don't delegate.
* Make builds a bit more robust, especially on Snow Leopard.
* Handle UTF-8 conversion better. Also, treat JS strings as UTF-16.
* Add small bits of API doco.
* Plug tons of root leaks.
* Make Function.prototype.apply handle Ruby arrays.
* Remove Rails EJS support, it was a joke to begin with.
* Whitespace, formatting, and organization cleanups.
Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace. It embeds the
Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime as a C extension. This release
squashes many, many bugs and segfaults.
Automated JavaScript testing through existing Ruby interfaces, e.g. RSpec.
James
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:58 AM, John Barnette <jbarnette@gmail.com> > wrote:
> johnson version 1.2.0 has been released!
>
> * <http://github.com/jbarnette/johnson>
> * <http://groups.google.com/group/johnson-talk>
>
> Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace. It embeds the
> Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime as a C extension. This release
> squashes many, many bugs and segfaults.
Could you talk about some of the potential use cases for this?
Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace. It embeds the
Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime as a C extension. This release
squashes many, many bugs and segfaults.
Could you talk about some of the potential use cases for this?
martin
blue-ridge is an example. It's a packing of a several projects that provides an rspec-like environment for JS. It currently uses Rhino, the Java JS interpreter, but there are efforts underway to make it work with Johnson/SpiderMoneky. That will require the next version of Johnson, tentatively, 2.0.0, but that's been under development for quite some time so there should be a prereleases of it before too long.
I do a lot of JS testing, using Johnson and other dependent gems. There's the env-js project and the envjs gem that provide a browser environment, e.g., a window object, based on Johnson. Then there's jazrb which combines the Jasmine (rspec-like) BDD framework with envjs. jslintrb is a Johnson-based ruby driver for Crockford's jslint. And I have a bastardized version of watchr that provides autotest-like environment for jazrb and jslint ... (and haml and sass ...)
FWIW, none of this is integrated with Rails at this point ...
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:58 AM, John Barnette <jbarnette@gmail.com> >> wrote: