[MacRuby-devel] Neat MacRuby app, HotCocoa, and more!

[Gary Weaver]

Leigh,

The impression I got with HotCocoa is that the core MacRuby team was 
busy enough with MacRuby to not want to get distracted with helping 
develop it. I know that many including myself would be interested in 
seeing it expand. (Rich did an awesome job with it, but it seemed to 
have a long way to go the last time I used it.)

IMO anything you add would be awesome, especially if you have the time 
to continue developing it.

Gary


On 11/13/10 10:08 PM, Leigh Caplan wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> I wanted to say hi to the list and introduce myself - I've been 
> lurking for awhile and come by when I need help, but RubyConf has me 
> all fired up, so I'd like to start engaging more with the community. 
> My name is Leigh Caplan, and I'm a developer in Seattle, WA. I like 
> long walks on the beach, dinner by candlelight, and not having to 
> write my Mac OS X apps in Objective C.
>
> First, I wanted to tell everyone about a potentially useful menu extra 
> that I created called CobraMenu. It's meant to be a simple "traffic 
> light" for CI Joe (the super simple/awesome CI server written by the 
> Github guys). You can find more info at 
> http://texel.github.com/CobraMenu/ or just clone/fork it from 
> https://github.com/texel/CobraMenu
>
> Next, developing this got me thinking about HotCocoa, and how it could 
> evolve into a really useful project in the future. I had a chat w/ 
> Matt Aimonetti today, and he mentioned that Rich Kilmer, while still 
> interested in the project, both didn't have time to maintain it and 
> also wasn't convinced that its current goal as a DSL for creating UI 
> elements was necessarily useful for anything but trivial projects. 
> Apparently there's also been some discussion to this effect on this 
> list, but I'm a bit late to the party, so I apologize.
>
> Now, I *can* see a need for a ruby-like DSL for Cocoa, but in my 
> opinion, it would be much more exciting if we endeavored to wrap other 
> Cocoa classes and idioms in a loving Ruby-like embrace. Here's a 
> rudimentary example (very much like something I've done in CobraMenu):
>
> HotCocoa::URLConnection.get('http://google.com') do |c|
>
> c.success { success_callback }
>
> c.failure { failure_callback }
>
> c.error { |e| error_handler.call_something e }
>
> end
>
>
> I'd be interested to see if other people think this is a good idea. If 
> so, I can formulate a strategy, and get to work :)
>
> Leigh

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