Moonbase

Edd Dumbill’s been experimenting with Ruby-GNOME lately, and notes that unlike the C# binding, ruby-glib2 doesn’t automatically derive a GObject class for every GLib::Object-derived Ruby class. To get a new underlying GObject class, you’ve got to explicitly call type_register on the Ruby class in question.

Why is that? Automatic GObject derivation in Ruby is certainly easy enough:

def (GLib::Object).inherited( c )
  super
  c.class_eval { type_register }
end

I’ve tried this and (at quick glance) it seems to work, too…