From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2008-05-24T21:48:01+09:00
Subject: Re: OSX Finder selected files

In addition, before going terribly far with OS X scripting outside of  
AppleScript itself, you'll do well to learn some AppleScript first to  
understand how it works (and how it doesn't).
Matt Neuberg's book on AppleScript will teach you a lot of what it  
can and cannot do and the how and why.
Other books may be gentler introductions/tutorials and will be  
useful, but Matt's explanations of the frustrations and workflow will  
be very reassuring.
That said, you might be surprised how much you can pass to apps via  
the command line as well...
(there's more than one way to do it in many cases)

rb-appscript will make it more convenient to pass data to/from Ruby.