[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby Book discount

[Morgan Schweers]

Greetings,
It's looking very interesting, and I bought it...!

I have to admit I'm slightly frustrated by the parts that go deep into the
non-MacRuby aspects of Mac OS X development (IB and the entity designer) and
then skim over what I feel are important details.  The chapter I always come
back to is the Core Data chapter, which only really covers visually
designing your data model, and using IB to make the UI for it.  Nothing more
than a passing mention on managedObjectContext, and nothing at all on
building predicates, querying Core Data using them, or...well...anything
that isn't covered by the trivial NSArrayController.

I understand the chapter's not done yet, and I very much look forward to
seeing how it looks when it's finished!

It's probably a personal frustration, because what I'm trying to do with
MacRuby is just not covered by the book at all.  After reading through it so
far, it's clearly a VERY good introductory guide to building OS X apps with
MacRuby, and I'm just keenly feeling the lack of a more advanced book on the
topic.

That said, the resource of everybody here, and on Twitter, is amazing, and
has helped immensely!  I've got a basic app up with a working source-list
style folders, supporting drag-and-drop from browsers, custom cells and
customizable columns in a populated table view, networking operations, HTML
parsing, and image manipulation all in less than 500 lines of MacRuby.
That's pretty fracking amazing! :)

I've certainly got a long way to go before I've got a finished application,
but the power of MacRuby is just astonishing.

I'd love to see a list of what apps HAVE been published to the Mac App Store
using MacRuby, if anybody is keeping such a list?  Partially just to bask in
the coolness, but also to have an idea how the UI of those apps fleshed
out...

Thanks again,

--  Morgan

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Nick Ludlam <nick at recoil.org> wrote:

> On 3 Feb 2011, at 03:58, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> > This sale price is still good!
>
>
> I've just bought my copy, too. Keep up the brilliant work, Matt!
>
> Between this, and the fact that people are already publishing MacRuby apps
> to the Mac app store, it seems like this is a really good place to be.
>
>
> Nick
>
>
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