Ruby + AppleScript = RubyOSA

Our friends at Download Squad have discovered a melding of two scripting worlds: AppleScript and Ruby. RubyOSA is the darling scriptenstein of these two languages, and while I don't know a lick of either, I'm willing to bet this could be a popular amongst the code ninjas in the audience. Ruby is a popular language (the 13th most popular, by their numbers), and it's the foundation of the Ruby on Rails framework which has given us such handy web 2.0 apps as Backpack, Odeo, Strongspace and many more.

This is about the line, however, that I reach where I would need to start pretending I know more about any of these languages, so I'll let you check out RubyOSA for yourself to see if it gets your coding gears turning.

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Source: http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/

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Our friends at Download Squad have discovered a melding of two scripting worlds: AppleScript and Ruby. RubyOSA is the darling scriptenstein...

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James MacAulay

I've been using RubyOSA for a couple months now, and I really love it. The most important thing to me isn't that I get to write AppleEvent applications in a language I already know; it's that I can easily integrate it with any other ruby app.

Also see: http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/doc/ which has been around for a while (but which I have yet to experiment with).

October 26 2006 at 9:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matthew Echert

This is good for people who don't know/don't like AppleScript, or just plain like Ruby better. (And who wouldn't, really?) There's already a JavaScript OSA component, but I think (not having played with it at all yet) that RubyOSA is more interesting. The more ways there are to harness the power of Apple Events, the better. Ruby seems like a really good fit for this.

Also, if I understand the bottom of the page correctly, this is actually Apple developing RubyOSA. Slick. Between that and their inclusion of Rails with Leopard, Apple seems to be really getting behind Ruby. Sweet. Maybe I don't need to know Python after all. ;)

October 26 2006 at 5:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply