(Custom) code completion for .so files

[Death Star]

Hi,

I compiled and installed ruby 1.9 myself.
I also compiled and installed several ruby- libraries (in lack of a better word; I mean the .so files), amongst others gnome2 and it's sub-package gtk2. (Note: because these are compiled by myself, these aren't gems)

Now, I really like code completion (as an aid), and especially for new (for me) and big libraries like gtk2, it's a really use full function.
The thing is, however, that there is no code completion for things like gnome2, gtk2, or gosu. This is of course understandable.. but I can't find a way to add this myself. Is there any way to let Netbeans know about any of this?

Netbeans doesn't only 'not know' what to code complete; but it also can't find the extra libraries when completing the require statements.
(An extra weird thing about the require completion is, that gtk2/base (instead of just gtk2 ! ), gnome2, libglade and others are there, but others like atk and bonobo2 aren't)
One thing to note about this, though, is that my libraries are not included in ruby/1.9.1/, but instead in ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/ (and they are still picked up by ruby itself)

Is there any way to add code completion for these self-compiled libraries?

Thanks,

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[Erno Mononen]

Hi,

One problem here might be that the IDE doesn't recognize
ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/ as a ruby lib dir, it assumes the site_ruby dir is
located at <ruby_home>/lib/ruby/site_ruby. So the dir doesn't get
scanned by the IDE and hence nothing from there is shown in code
completion. Since ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/ appears to a valid location for
site_ruby, this should probably be fixed in in the IDE. As an experiment
you may try adding the dir as a source root to your project (in Project
Properties -> Sources), this way the IDE should index all the ruby files
in the dir, but it isn't really a real solution for this.

Another problem is that the IDE can't index native libraries (C files),
you'd have to generate "ruby stubs" (i.e. skeleton ruby class files)
from the .c files and place those stubs into a directory where the IDE
will find them. We generate stubs for the native built-in Ruby classes,
but I don't know how easily this could be done for gtk2 and other
libraries. I can give it a try at some point, but if you want to play
with this yourself, you need to clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main/misc
and then check the rdocscanner and generator projects in ruby/stubs.
ruby/stubs/UPDATE.txt describes the process, but it may be rather hard
to get started with it though - if you decide to try it, please feel
free to ask here in case of any problems.

Erno


Death Star wrote:

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thanks for your help.

About the require's: adding /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1 as a source path had no effect, but I did find something.
Every library that Netbeans recognizes, has at leas /something/ declared.
When I just added a dummy 'module bonobo; end;' to a file called bonobo2.rb (which normally only included 2 other 'require' lines), I /could/ see the entry. It was called bonobo2, and behind that, the dummy module name.
So apparently, Netbeans only recognizes files with something declared in it. Bug?

I haven't tried the generator yet, but I will definitely look in to it.
I'm not sure that the generator will work for me, so just in case; is there a way to define the stubs manually?
I remember with NB 6.5 that I tried making my own stubs, but that failed.

Also, some files in rubystubs/1.8.7-p72/ have stub_<name>.rb (like stub_file.rb), but others just <name>.rb (like socket.rb) .. is there anything special about this?
Also, like I just said, they are stored in 1.8.7-p72 .. and I have 1.9.1.. .. that won't be too problematic I hope?

Thanks,

DS

Erno Mononen wrote:

[Erno Mononen]

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