A little language that compiles Emoji down to Ruby. It's just Ruby. Really.
If I were a real language designer, I would have put a lot of thought into the syntax, semantics, and structure of emoruby. Instead I basically implemented an inefficient find-and-replace from a static dictionary. (🐄🎩!)
Anyway, here is an example hello world program:
📋 ❤️
🔜 👋
👀 💬😃 🌏💬
🔚
🔚
❤️▪️🐣▪️👋
which is equivalent to this Ruby:
class Heart
def wave
puts "smiley earth_asia"
end
end
Heart.new.wave
Emoruby uses polyglot to enable require
to be used on .emoruby
files just as you do with Ruby source .rb
files. To register the file extension, simply:
> require 'emoruby'
=> true
> Emoruby.register
=> nil
> require 'hello_world'
smiley earth_asia
=> true
You can run emoruby from the command line by passing an emoruby file as the first argument:
$ emoruby spec/fixtures/1_hello_world.emoruby
smiley earth_asia
The API allows both evaluation of emoruby code as well as translation to Ruby.
> source = "💬😃 🌏💬"
=> "💬😃 🌏💬"
> Emoruby.eval(source)
=> "smiley earth_asia"
Emoruby.emoji_to_ruby(source)
=> "\"smiley earth_asia\""
The Emoruby team embraces and advocates the adoption of the the emerging iconographic versioning standard ("icover" for short).
The initial release was 💩 (in honor of @tenderlove's 💩-lang). The next planned release is ✊.