[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby application on Xcode

[Patrick Hanevold]

There is also the pure ruby cocoa gem https://github.com/patrickhno/cocoa




Patrick

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:

> On 10/22/14, 9:05 PM, Sandeep Murthy wrote:
>> I can obviously create a source file where I can write Ruby code, but I can’t
>> seem to compile and run this directly in Xcode.
>>
> MacRuby has been overtaken by bit-rot and is no longer viable. You may 
> need to move in another direction. Here are a few options:
> 1. As another poster in the thread indicated, try RubyMotion, a 
> commercial product developed by the creator of MacRuby that is 
> essentially its successor.
> 2. Switch to Objective-C for developing of a Cocoa app with Xcode.
> 3. Use Ruby with another GUI toolkit, such as Tk: Ruby has just added 
> support for Tk's latest version, 8.6. Tk works pretty well on the Mac, 
> other GUI toolkits are not well-maintained on the Mac.
> Hope this helps,
> Kevin
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