Comments on: MacRuby – First Impression

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:29:47 +0000

Just what I needed.

Thanks for posting this.

By: Spencer MacDonald

Spencer MacDonald — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:25:44 +0000

Hi Duncan,

Yes you can. When you deploy your application you include the MacRuby Framework as an embedded framework, the same way you would do with any Mac OS framework that isn’t included with the OS e.g. Growl, Sparkle etc.

Doing this means that users of your application do not need to have installed the MacRuby SDK to use it, and that you can have access to Ruby functionality as long as you embed the relevant source in the build.

By: Duncan Fleming

Duncan Fleming — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:33:52 +0000

Great post, very interesting stuff.

I know Ruby has a lot of it’s own frameworks (Not the Obj-c ones) is it possible to build a mac app and mix both the ruby frameworks and Obj-c ones?

By: Spencer MacDonald

Spencer MacDonald — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:23:01 +0000

Yeah I know

Just it is an easy example to give, will point that out in the post to make it clearer.

By: Ted Wise

Ted Wise — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:43:42 +0000

This Objective-C code:

NSString *string = [NSString stringWithString:@"Test string"];

Has the Ruby equivalent:

string = “Test String”

Strings in MacRuby are NSMutableStrings, which are subclasses of NSString. You don’t need to alloc or construct them.

By: StuFF mc

StuFF mc — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:41:58 +0000

Great post! But “MacRuby actually adds this syntax to Ruby” isn’t very true. As far as I know, named parameter (actually a hash of params) is a Ruby 1.9 feature, nothing to do with MacRuby. Once again, AFAIK.