From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2012-08-19T03:48:36+09:00
Subject: Re: App launcher on OS X: interest?

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a proof-of-concept Ruby desktop app bundler/launcher for OS
> X. It's not yet ready for release, or even hacking on, but I wanted to
> describe the package and see if there was any interest because it's not a
> simple plug-and-play "wrap my app, run on OS X" tool.
[...]
> I'm deeply frustrated with the Windows-centric orientation of the Ruby
> desktop app wrapper libraries and the lack of up-to-date support among these
> tools for Ruby 1.9.

Hear, hear. Even for JRuby it's not that easy.

> Thoughts are appreciated. If there's no interest, this will likely be my
> last word on this project.

I think it sounds interesting. I wish I could offer some help, but I
don't have the knowledge of Mac or Ruby internals at the moment.