From: Robert Gleeson <rob@...>
Date: 2010-03-01T17:24:51+09:00
Subject: Re: MacRuby for simple Ruby

Jean Guillaume Pyraksos wrote:
> Hi,
> If I download MacRuby, will I be able to program "usual" Ruby
> (without Cocoa and the Objective-C bridge), with gems, etc.
> or am I obliged to program a Caoca Mac application ?
> Is there an IDE inside, or just XCode ?
> Thanks a lot,
> 
>    JG

MacRuby can't compile native extensions yet, and fork() is not 
implemented and there are no plans to implement it either(Due to the 
CoreFoundation framework, and maybe other reasons) .. So there are some 
gems that will never ever work with MacRuby.

MacRuby is good for casual programming right now but until it gets a 
little bit older I wouldn't consider it for developing production 
applications. It is still a fun language for hacking around on, though.

-- Rob

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