From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-12-27T12:08:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Automating OS X with Ruby.


On Dec 26, 2007, at 8:35 AM, has wrote:

> On 25 Dec, 03:23, Stephen Schor <beholdthepa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have experience with the Ruby OSA library?
>
> Used it; don't much like it. It lacks various features found in
> AppleScript, has poorer application compatibility, and its attempts to
> dress up Apple event IPC in object-oriented semantics create various
> hidden gotchas.
>
> The best currently available solution is rb-appscript - see my sig for
> links. The recent 0.5.0 compares very well to AppleScript in terms of
> power and reliability, and you get additional benefits such as a
> powerful built-in help system. If you're coming from an OO background
> you'll find Apple events' EPC+query-based behaviour a bit strange at
> first, but you soon get used to it. See the appscript manual for some
> background information and a tutorial to get you started.
>
>
>> What sites do you find most helpful in learning about OS X  
>> automation?
>
> For now, you largely have to work with existing AppleScript-based
> resources as there's not a lot of material out there on using other
> languages in its place. (Hopefully this will improve as more folks
> start using Python, Ruby, etc. as AppleScript replacements.) Here's a
> recent thread that may be of some help:
>
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/ 
> 31f2bfa25cfad667/
>
> HTH
>
> has
> --
> http://appscript.sourceforge.net
> http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org
>
I'm going to second this opinion.
I tried the others, but rb-appscript is definitely more robust.