Mirah 0.1.2 release process notes

mirah_0_1_2_notes

mirah 0.1.2 release highlights

 - improvements to the new mirrors implementation (try it with -T)
 - improvements to the new backend implementation (try it with -N)
 - added better casting for methods that return primitives (754cc38f)
 - =~, include? macros added to String (Thanks altamic)
 - << operator added to StringBuilder
 - improved line number recording in new backend
 - fixed a few macro expansion related bugs
 - Added Apache 2 license to gem metadata
 - running mirah files with a classpath will now us the classpath for both compilation AND execution



ack `ruby -Ilib -rmirah/version -e 'puts Mirah::VERSION.sub(".dev","")'`
rvm jruby@mirah_release_0_1_2 --create

It'd be nice if I could run the JVM tests w/ the release artifact. Hmm.


$ mirah -e 'puts 1'
NameError: cannot load Java class org.mirah.macros.Macro
         for_name at org/jruby/javasupport/JavaClass.java:1250
  get_proxy_class at org/jruby/javasupport/JavaUtilities.java:34
      java_import at file:/Users/nick/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.9/lib/jruby.jar!/jruby/java/core_ext/object.rb:26
              map at org/jruby/RubyArray.java:2409
      java_import at file:/Users/nick/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.9/lib/jruby.jar!/jruby/java/core_ext/object.rb:22
              AST at /Users/nick/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.9@mirah_release_0_1_2/gems/mirah-0.1.2-java/lib/mirah/transform/ast_ext.rb:5
            Mirah at /Users/nick/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.9@mirah_release_0_1_2/gems/mirah-0.1.2-java/lib/mirah/transform/ast_ext.rb:2
           (root) at /Users/nick/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.9@mirah_release_0_1_2/gems/mirah-0.1.2-java/lib/mirah/transform/ast_ext.rb:1
          require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1083
           (root) at /Users/nick/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.9/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:1
          require at /Users/nick/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.9/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55
          require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1083
           (root) at /Users/nick/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.9@mirah_release_0_1_2/gems/mirah-0.1.2-java/lib/mirah/transform.rb:21
           (root) at /Users/nick/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.9/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:1
          require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1083
          require at /Users/nick/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.9/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55
           (root) at /Users/nick/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.9@mirah_release_0_1_2/gems/mirah-0.1.2-java/lib/mirah.rb:28
             load at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1099
           (root) at /Users/nick/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.9/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:1
             eval at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1119
           (root) at /Users/nick/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.9@mirah_release_0_1_2/bin/jruby_executable_hooks:15

well that didn't work

Oh I think I know why

the rake task to build the gem is initialized before all the files for the gem exist. So maybe rake dist should build everything, then shell out to itself to build the gem.