A few weeks ago, Laurent and I chatted about some possible HowTo articles. Unfortunately, he is far too busy to create the raw materials that I volunteered to wordsmith (and I don't have the MacRuby/ObjC/... chops needed to do his part): At 23:06 -0700 4/27/09, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

For the article, I have 0 time to do it, sorry. What about describing our idea on the mailing list and see if someone is willing to help?

If anyone on the list would like to create some example code and notes, I'll be happy to work with you on this (and I suspect that Laurent _would_ have time to provide incidental help and review). Anyway, my proposal is that we create a series of HowTos: * "Adding MacRuby to TextEdit" This would cover the pre-conditions (eg, MacRuby, Xcode), then explain how to add MacRuby to the TextEdit build. If possible, the last part of the HowTo should contain examples of calling internal TextEdit methods from irb. This would demonstrate MacRuby's utility as a tool for exploratory programming. * "Replacing ObjC methods with MacRuby" This would show how to replace the major kinds of ObjC methods with MacRuby code. At some point, it might be cool to have a MacRuby-only implementation of TextEdit. For now, however, this HowTo could show the basics of supplanting existing code in an application. * "Extending TextEdit with MacRuby" This HowTo would demonstrate how MacRuby can be used to add functionality to an application. I'm not sure, offhand, what kinds of functionality we should add, but I'd like to end up with the ability to load Ruby code from a ".textedit.rb" (or whatever) file. So, is anyone up for this? -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development