Object Mentor Blog: Baubles in Orbit

Baubles in Orbit

Uncle Bob — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:29:32 -0500

I have put together a nice little demonstration of the Bauble concept. You may recall that I first wrote about it here. Baubles are a simple component scheme for Ruby, good for when you want a component, but don’t need something as heavy as a gem.

orbit.zip contains all the files for this demonstration. I suggest you download and unpack it.

First you need to install the Bauble gem. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt anything. Just say gem install orbit/bauble/Bauble-0.1.gem (You’ll probably have to do it with sudo.) That should install Bauble. From now on you only need to say require 'bauble' in your ruby scripts that make use of it.

Now you should be able to run the orbital simulator. Just type:


cd orbit/MultipleBodyOrbit/lib
jruby multiple_body_orbit.rb

A swing window should pop up and you should be able to watch an orbital simulation. Every run shows a different random scenario, so you can kill a lot of time by watching worlds in collision.

The thing to note, if you are a ruby programmer, is the use of the term Bauble::use(-some_directory-). If you look in the multiple_body_orbit.rb file you’ll see I use two Baubles, the Physics bauble does the raw calculation for all the gravity, forces, collisions, etc. The cellular_automaton bauble provides a very simple Swing framework for drawing dots on a screen. (Yes, this is jruby).

If you look in either of the two Baubles, you’ll see that the require statements within them do not know (or care) about the directory they live in. There is none of that horrible __FILE__ nonsense that pollutes so many ruby scripts. This is because the Bauble::use function puts the directory path in the LOAD_PATH so that subsquent require statements can simply eliminate the directory spec.

Take a look at the Bauble source code. It’s no great shakes.

Also take a look at the two baubles. They show a pretty nice way to decouple business rules from gui. You might recognize the MVP pattern. The multiple_body_orbit.rb file contains the presenter. Clearly the Physics module is the model. And the cellular_automaton module is the view. (There is no controller, because there is no input.)

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