Serabe Reloaded

It’s been long time since last status update, but there are some things to tell, so here I am.

Thankfully, this year I’m a GSoC student again (and my mentor is Tom too). The main part of my project would be porting Nokogiri to JRuby, so I haven’t code for RMagick for a while now.

Let’s start with the status update then.

Nokogiri

I’ve been working on Nokogiri for a while. I forked Charles’ repo in Github, and I’ve implemented some cool features. For example, today I got my XML::Reader implementation to pass all tests in test_reader.rb. I hope I’ll be able to make a release this month (cross your fingers).

On the other hand, I got my first patch accepted in Nokogiri’s main repo.

RMagick4J

Not to much work done here, sorry. I haven’t code anything for a while now. Migrating from mercurial to git is already planned, but before that I would like to do a few commits more. Anyway, I’m quite happy with this project. Some people are using it and reporting bugs (in the end, those little things are all that matters). What else can I ask for?

Please, if you find a bug, report it here.

MagickWand

Tim Hunter (creator of RMagick) released MagickWand recently. I’ve been considering porting it to JRuby too. I have to take a deeper look at the C code, but, by now, I think it could be a good way to lead RMagick4J development. If finally I port it, I will split RMagick4J in two projects (Magick4J and RMagick4J). This way, MagickWand4J and RMagick4J would share the same java codebase, as MagickWand and RMagick share ImageMagick.

ruby2java

Take a look here. Awesome, isn’t it? And as soon as I have some time to work on it, siesta will be out too…

P.D. By the way, no more personal stuff in this blog. That stuff is now here, and only in Spanish (sorry about that).

RMagick aims to implement the ImageMagick funcionality and the C portions of RMagick for make it works in JRuby.

Current stable version: 0.3.5
Project URL: http://code.google.com/p/rmagick4j/
Installation: gem install rmagick4j

Google Summer of Code project should be thanked for making this new release possible.

In release 0.3.5 the following improvements have been made:

• Implemented Draw primitives (affice, arc, pattern, path).
• Improved Image and ImageList:
• crop
• rotate
• store_pixels
• flatten_images
• Implemented more of Pixel (from_HSL, to_HSL, <=>, fcmp, intensity).
• Implemented the fill classes.
• Added a side-by-side (MRI vs JRuby) image testing tool named Bullseye.
• Added 680 color names. It can search, but not retrieve the name correctly capitalized.
• Changed gem name from RMagick4J to rmagick4j.

This version should allow Gruff Graphs and Ruports to largely work without issues. Please try out your applications with rmagick4j and help us provide feedback. It is our goal to make a fully-compatible implementation of RMagick4j in JRuby.