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Apple Unveils Extra Leopard-isms To Developers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-what's-coming dept.

devilsecret writes to point out that some of the new Apple capabilities for developers on Leopard have been unveiled. The most interesting parts appear to be the opening of more of iLife to other programs, and the inclusion of Ruby on Rails.

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  1. Re:RoR bandwagon? by nine-times · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Anyone think Apple jumped on the RoR bandwagon a little too soon? The whole "movement" has lost a lot of steam and it doesn't appear to be the silver bullet everyone originally thought it was.

    Wouldn't that mean they jumped on the bandwagon a little too late?

    Anyway, RoR isn't the solution to all programming problems, but it seems to have enough steam that it's going to stick around. OSX comes with Apache, and it's not hard to get PHP, MySQL, or whatever else installed. There's a ruby interpreter in the OS already, and a lot of the prominent people in the RoR community are OSX users.

    I can't RTFA to know what they've actually done, but why wouldn't they support RoR? In spite of not finding the meaning of life, solving world hunger, or finding hot women for me, it's a pretty good tool. Something can be useful without solving every single problem, you know.

  2. Re:Why do people pay for this stuff? by lurch_mojoff · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...No, this isn't intented to be flamebait - I'm a new Mac Mini owner myself and it's getting way more use than my PC. But I can't understand how Apple can charge for what is a pretty damn small upgrade...
    How is this not a flamebait? First, you bring up a question that has been answered about a jazillion times already - Steve Jobs is in lovez with the number 10 (or in Apple lingo "X") and from now on for Mac OS the major version number is the one after the first decimal point. And second, even if you actually believed that the numbering scheme proved that this is a minor update you didn't even bother to check what is the new and improved stuff in Leopard, yet you felt the need to post a comment titled "Why do people pay for this stuff?". This is definitely a textbook example of a flamebait.
  3. Re:RoR bandwagon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I find it very odd that CoreData can't do multi-user stuff, they already speak SQL to interface with SQLite so I don't see why they couldn't throw in an option for ODBC or something. Here's hoping 10.5 has this.

  4. Re:RoR bandwagon? by MicrosoftRepresentit · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That is sort of what EOF/WebObjects is for, which is also free as of some time earlier this year. I think its still all Java though, heres hoping Leopard brings ObjC support