Lukas Ocilka: Non-YaST Applications Can Benefit from YaST Framework

As you already know, YaST team has been working on an automatic translation of the YaST code from YCP to Ruby. This is possible thanks to two projects

• y2r - translates YCP code into Ruby
• ycp-killer - manages tasks related to translation of YCP code in YaST modules into Ruby

Y2R Editor

I've been asked by the team to write a simple application allowing writing YCP code that would be automatically translated to Ruby and shown aside. Creating this application using YaST framework was the very next logical step. Development was fast and easy and it has proven that we can use that framework for system applications as well.


The whole source code is written in Ruby and it's connected to the YaST framework via yast2-ruby-bindings (version >= 1.0.0).

How to Run the Editor

If you want to try running the editor yourself, follow the README.md file in y2r-tools project. You will need to have y2r project cloned to your system and it's also helpful to have to latest yast2-core from YaST:Head project, because part of it is used for the translation.

Note: Just in case it will stuck in the middle of the translation, search for ruby process and kill it (kill -9 $PROCESS_ID). Then write the second quote, please :) Yes, there was a bug in yast2-core that it was searching for closing quote in strings like string message = "Unfinished.

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