THIS FORK OF ENV.JS IS MOTHBALLED
The Johnson fork of env.js is pretty much mothballed (which is already pretty much true of Johnson, given the rise of v8 and the difficulty moving Johnson to 1.9.*). The current best practices seem to be based on a headless webkit.
env.js
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#envjs @ freenode
Description
A browser environment for javascript interpreters.
This is a fork of the env.js project (github.com/thatcher/env-js/). See that link for env.js details. This fork is based on the Johnson Ruby gem (github.com/jbarnette/johnson).
Installation
For now, you can install the envjs gem by installing Johnson:
gem install johnson --prerelease
and then installing the envjs gem with
gem install envjs
Using envjs interactively
The envjs gem provides the envjsrb command, which functions as an extended version of the Johnson javascript shell. For example:
mbp:env-js smparkes$ envjsrb
js> this
=> [object Window 0]
js> window.location
=> about:blank
js> document.innerHTML
=> "<html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>"
js>
Embedding envjs
It’s also possible to embed the envjs interpreter similar to the way it’s done in Johnson, e.g.,
require 'rubygems' # if necessary
require 'johnson/tracemonkey'
require 'envjs/runtime'
envjs = Johnson::Runtime.new
envjs.extend Envjs::Runtime
window = envjs.evaluate("window")
puts window.location.to_s # == "about:blank"
puts window.document.innerHTML # == "<html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>"
envjs.wait
You need the Runtime#wait at the end to give env.js’s event loop a chance to execute queued events and timers. You may need to do this at other times as well, depending on the asynchronous nature of your application.
License
See github.com/smparkes/env-js/blob/envjsrb/licenses/MIT-LICENSE.txt and github.com/smparkes/env-js/blob/envjsrb/licenses/GPL-LICENSE.txt.