[MacRuby-devel] New to MacRuby and Cocoa

[Matt Aimonetti]

Hi Mario,

Welcome! I am sure that the sponsor of this mailing list and project (Apple)
would love to hear that MacRuby pushed you to give up your Hackintosh for an
official Apple machine ;)

More seriously, after installing MacRuby, you will find a list of samples
and examples in $ /Developer/Examples/Ruby/MacRuby/  There is a rtf there
that explains what each example does and the various libraries covered.

You will also find some examples on GitHub and I tried to cover the main
Cocoa elements in my book that you can read online (draft)
http://macruby.labs.oreilly.com/  (we also have some tutorials and recipes
on the website: http://macruby.org )

You don't have to search for MacRuby specific documentation, any Cocoa
documentation will do, you just need to change the syntax. Apple's developer
website has a lot of content you can easily read.

I believe there was also an effort to convert Aaron Hillegass's book
examples to MacRuby.

- Matt



On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mario Steele <mario at ruby-im.net> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> First, let me introduce myself.  I'm Mario Steele, I've been programming
> with Ruby for about 3 or 4 years now, mostly dealing with Ruby 1.8, and
> wxRuby (Also a maintainer there), and have recently decided to give MacRuby
> a try, since I've been using my Hackintosh setup more often.  I'm not a new
> comer to Ruby, or GUI programming by far, but what I would like to know, is
> that if there are any Demos out there, dealing with various Controls
> provided by the Cocoa library, such as NSOutlineView, and NSTableView.
>  Something that isn't written into the base code of the app, where all
> delegation methods for the window, and the application is inserted next to
> the stuff for the OutlineView and TableView stuff.
>
> I'm in the process of writting an iTunes replacement, based on similar
> setup, and design to Rhythmbox, and have gone out of my way, to get to the
> point where I am at now, but it would help my understanding more of the
> controls, if I see some code that strictly works with these controls,
> instead of code intermixed with other code for the App and Window controls.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> --
> Mario Steele
>
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