I don't know which version of JRuby that Ruby Developer's Guide refers
to, but it's the same in the latest development version too.
I'm adding this as a possible bug.

/Anders

On 2002-08-02 Damon <adamon / mailandnews.com> wrote:
> I am running the sample code straight out of Ruby Developer's Guide,
> which shows an example of how Java can call a Ruby interpreter to run
> a Ruby script.  The code is found on pp.505-506.  After downloading
> JRuby-0.5.0, however, I get the following exeception:
> 
> % java Java2Ruby
[snip]
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException:
> org.jruby.RubyRange
>         at org.jruby.javasupport.JavaUtil.convertRubyToJava(JavaUtil.java:163)
>         at org.jruby.Ruby.evalScript(Ruby.java:203)
>         at Java2Ruby.main(Java2Ruby.java:33)
> 
> 
> Has something changed in JRuby since the book was published?  Is there
> a now a different way to invoke the Ruby interpreter from KJava?
> 
> Below is the source code.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> import javax.swing.*;
> import java.awt.BorderLayout;
> import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
> import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
> import org.jruby.*;
> import org.jruby.regexp.*;
> import org.jruby.javasupport.*;
> 
> public class Java2Ruby {
> 
>         public static void main(String[] argv) {
> 
>                 JFrame frame = new JFrame ("Java loves Ruby");
>                 JLabel label = new JLabel ("Cats have 9 lives");
>                 JButton button = new JButton ("Press me");
> 
>                 Ruby ruby = Ruby.getDefaultInstance
> (GNURegexpAdapter.class);
> 
>                 button.addActionListener (new ActionListener() {
> 
>                         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
> 
>                                 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,
>                                         "Hello from Java\n Responding
> button:" +
>                                         e.getActionCommand ());
>                         }
>                 });
> 
>                 String rubySource = "listContents = []\n" +
>                         "(1..9).each { |x| listContents << " +
>                         "(\"cat number \" + x.to_s)}\n";
> 
>                 String[] listContents = (String[]) ruby.evalScript
> (rubySource,
>                         String[].class);
> 
>                 JList list = new JList (listContents);
> 
>                 frame.getContentPane ().add (button,
> BorderLayout.SOUTH);
>                 frame.getContentPane ().add (list,
> BorderLayout.CENTER);
>                 frame.getContentPane ().add (label,
> BorderLayout.NORTH);
>                 frame.setDefaultCloseOperation (JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
> 
>                 frame.pack ();
>                 frame.setVisible (true);
>         }
> }
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