From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-08-18T15:04:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Using StandardAdditions.osax with appscript

On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Vasil Vangelovski wrote:

> a workaround for this:
> 1. Execute applescript in shell command
> 2. Execute shell command in ruby
>
> Examle:
>
> [code]
> Applescript:
>
> tell application "Finder"
>   delete file "Untitled.rtf"
>   delete file "untitled2.rtf"
> end tell
>
> Ruby:
> command = "osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to delete file
> "untitled.rtf"' -e 'tell application "Finder" to delete file
> "untitled2.rtf"'"
> system (command)
> [/code]
>
> That will execute the string in command inthe shell.
> I couldn't test it but hope it works.

Yeah, I could do that. But it would kind of spoil the fun. As I see  
it, the whole idea of the appscript library is make the sort of thing  
you suggest unnecessary. The appscript library works pretty good for  
replacing the AppleScript I tend to use. I much prefer writing

<code>
require "appscript"
include Appscript

finder = app('Finder')
finder.count(finder.desktop, :each => :file) # => 2
finder.disks[its.local_volume.eq(true)].get.size # => 3
</code>

to

</code>
tell app "Finder"
    set onDesk to count desktop's files
    set drives to (disks whose local volume is true)
    set drives to drives's length
    {onDesk, drives}
end tell
</code>

I just wish I knew how to access the the standard scripting additions.

Regards, Morton