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Mac OS X Ruby/Objective-C Bridge Updated

Posted by timothy on from the jewels dept.

phyxeld writes "RubyCocoa 0.4.0 is out. From the sf.net page: 'RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that allows Cocoa programming in the Object-Oriented Scripting Language Ruby. RubyCocoa allows writing a Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows creating and using a Cocoa object in a Ruby script. In Cocoa application, mixture of program written by both Ruby and Objective-C is possible.' It's always nice to see more GPL software in the Mac OS X world."

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  1. ..this makes me dizzy.. by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Funny

    so, this makes doing ruby possible with cocoa or cocoa apps with ruby or cocoa possible with ruby.

    i may be tired but it was versed veerry confusing, something out of a bejeesus archaic journal v3.

    happy new years eve, k-suicide on.

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  2. field day for the grammar nazi by grammar+nazi · · Score: 3, Informative
    The grammar nazi could have a field day with this one:
    RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that allows Cocoa programming in the Object-Oriented Scripting Language Ruby. RubyCocoa allows writing a Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows creating and using a Cocoa object in a Ruby script. In Cocoa application, mixture of program written by both Ruby and Objective-C is possible.
    I heard that Ruby was mostly popular over in Japan, but I didn't expect this kind of Engrish at Sourceforge!
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  3. speaking of Japan and Ruby by josephgrossberg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The fact Ruby is popular over there seems to be an oft-quoted tidbit.

    How common is this? Do programming languages vary that much in popularity from region to region? (O'Reilly's Ruby book came out in Japan two years before the English-language Ruby in a Nutshell.)

    If so, why do you think that's the case? That influential programmers/managers give a particular language the nod early on? That documentation is published early in a particular language? That (OK, this is stretching it) Japanese syntax shares commonalities with Ruby?

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  4. A bit redundant, i'nnit? by Wonko42 · · Score: 3, Funny
    "RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that allows Cocoa programming in the Object-Oriented Scripting Language Ruby. RubyCocoa allows writing a Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows creating and using a Cocoa object in a Ruby script."

    So, let me get this straight. You're saying I can (gasp!) write a Cocoa application in Ruby? Which is to say that I can write a Cocoa application in Ruby? Let me put this another way: I can write a Cocoa application in Ruby? So in other words, I can write a Cocoa application in Ruby? Wow, Cocoa apps written in Ruby, who would've thought. Did I mention that you can write Cocoa apps in Ruby?

  5. AppleScript Studio by TiMac · · Score: 4, Informative
    Sounds a little like Applescript Studio, from Apple themselves...which allows Cocoa applications to be written with a mix of Applescript and Objective-C. I like this system because sometimes its easier and faster to develop an interaction or automation application with a scripting language like Applescript.

    This RubyCocoa I've not used, but I bet it shims in and allows the same sort of thing.

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