From: Stephen Cox <stephen@...>
Date: 2007-10-22T19:28:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby For Me?

i know what I'm about to post doesn't apply to you. however i think it 
might give you an idea "what's to come with Ruby".

On the Mac, we have RubyCocoa ( 
http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/HomePage ) a bridge between the Ruby 
and the Objective-C languages, allowing you to manipulate Objective-C 
objects from Ruby, and vice-versa. It interfaces completly with xCode, 
(apple's development environment IDE). Including Interface Builder (the 
GUI builder, similiar to VS' GUI builder - dragging/dropping objects 
onto windows and assigning attributes to each object).

Using this tool, you can write complete cocoa applications using Ruby in 
the xCode development environment. See the above link for examples of 
projects that have done this.

There's even a Ruby bridge to Applescript called rb-appscript. Allowing 
you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications using ordinary Ruby 
scripts. Some are even using this in place of Applesript. You can write 
ruby scripts to control iTunes, or QuickTime, or Spotlight, etc, etc.

In the next release of OSX (10.5) Apple is including an updated copy of 
ruby and rails and a few gems to boot. But of course, you can easily 
install what you want.

I tell you this so you'd have an idea what is going on in Ruby on other 
playforms. I am assuming the Windows geeks are following suit. I think 
soon, you'll have more than enough Ruby "bridges" to various Windows 
techs and IDE's.

So hang in there.

What I'd like to see is a real cross-platform graphics tool kit for 
ruby. Most I've tried are seriouslly lacking. Maybe Jruby is the answer?
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