From: Stephen Schor <beholdthepanda@...>
Date: 2007-12-25T12:23:49+09:00
Subject: Automating OS X with Ruby.

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Howdy,

I just upgraded to leopard and thought it would be a good opportunity to
learn automation in OS X.
I started playing around with Ruby OSA (http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/).
Many of the 'hello world' applications
look something like:

  require 'rbosa'
  itunes = OSA.app('iTunes')

  track = itunes.current_track
  puts track.name                # "Over The Rainbow"


However - I can't interact with the *itunes* object unless I manually open
the application.
After I manually open it - I can call nifty methods like itunes.play() and
itunes.stop().
I tried calling itunes.open() but that wouldn't launch the application.
After combing over RDocs and the Ruby OSA mailing list - I didn't see
anything too helpful.

Does anyone have experience with the Ruby OSA library?  Do you have a
different, favorite way to automate OS X?
What sites do you find most helpful in learning about OS X automation?

-Stephen

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