String#getbyte not working?

[paul@…]

It appears the new String method called getbyte for Ruby 1.9 is not working? Results in an "Abort trap" message.

~ $ macruby --version MacRuby version 0.5 (ruby 1.9.0) [universal-darwin10.0, x86_64]

~ $ macruby -e ' "abc".getbyte(0);' Abort trap

[paul@…]

Revised with better formatting:

~ $ macruby --version
MacRuby version 0.5 (ruby 1.9.0) [universal-darwin10.0, x86_64]

~ $ macruby -e ' "abc".getbyte(0);'
Abort trap

[lsansonetti@…]

String#getbyte has not been implemented yet. We currently call abort().

[paul@…]

Is String#getbyte on the roadmap somewhere. Given the new multibyte strings in Ruby 1.9, String#getbyte seems to be the only way to get the old behaviour of directly accessing bytes (rather than characters) in a string? OTOH I suppose there would be a Cocoa way to do that?

[lsansonetti@…]

#getbyte and friends are now supported as in 1.9 in the new String class. Check out trunk.