Ruby + Clojure = Rouge.
Why?
- Clojure is elegant and fun.
- Quick boot time (currently around 0.1s).
- Ruby's gems tend to be modern with decent APIs.
You can try a Rouge REPL online at Try Rouge, or install the gem to get the local REPL:
gem install rouge-lang
rougeYou'll see the user=> prompt. Enjoy!
You can discuss on Google Groups' rouge-talk,
or on #rouge on Freenode.
See boot.rg, em-rg, mechanize-rg, but to demonstrate salient features:
; define a macro
(defmacro defn [name args & body]
`(def ~name (fn ~name ~args ~@body)))
; call a Ruby method on Kernel (if the ruby namespace is referred)
(defn require [lib]
(.require Kernel lib))
; call a Ruby method on an Array with a block argument
(defn reduce [f coll]
(.inject coll | f))
; using Ruby's AMQP gem with an inline block
(.subscribe queue {:ack true} | [metadata payload]
(puts (str "got a message: " payload))
(.ack metadata))What about in Rails?
$ rails console -- -rrouge
Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.6)
1.9.3p194 :002 > Rouge::REPL.repl []
user=> (.where ruby/Content {:id 1})
Content Load (0.7ms) SELECT "contents".* FROM "contents" WHERE "contents"."id" = 1
[#<Content id: 1, content_group_id: 1, name: "welcome", content: "blah blah", created_at: "2012-08-26 11:30:50", updated_at: "2012-08-26 11:50:27", order: nil>]
user=>
See TODO, but big ones include:
- making seqs nicer
- persistent datastructures everywhere
- defprotocol
Yes, please!
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add tests! This is so I don't break your lovely addition in the future by accident.
- Commit and pull request! (Bonus points for topic branches.)
Also, if there's something in particular you want that's missing, feel free to put your vote in by opening an Issue so I know where to direct my attention.
Original author: Arlen Christian Mart Cuss.
Committers:
Unreserved thanks to the following people for their contributions.
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