[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby Book expectations

[Caio Chassot]

On 2011-02-04, at 07:30 , Jean-Denis Muys wrote:
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> I am at the other end of the spectrum: I am an experienced Cocoa/Objective-C programmer and a Ruby newbie.

And I'm back at the ruby expert, cocoa newbie, yet…

> I expect the book to address two facets of software development with MacRuby:

… I'm very much in agreement with the list of things Jean-Denis listed here.

I'd only add a complement to "Using Xcode with MacRuby": Using MacRuby WITHOUT Xcode.

Rubyists tend to like stuff simple: plain text files for configs, CLI-based tools. Interface Builder is more-or-less inevitable, but otherwise I'd love to stay away from Xcode, particularly as a build tool.