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Hackety Hack: A gift to aspiring Ruby programmers

by Rick Martin (Dec 27th, 2010)

As a perpetual programmer wannabe, I'm always on the lookout for new tools that make the mysteries of coding a little more accessible. Much to my dismay, most programming tutorials that I've come across assume some prior knowledge or that you're transitioning from some other language. So, I was ...

Snow Leopard Services in practice: Amazon S3 uploader

by Brett Terpstra (Sep 6th, 2009)

I stumbled upon a great example of the Snow Leopard Services that I've been drooling over. The S3 Upload Service by August Lilleaas is available as a workflow which can be opened in Automator, so you can examine its inner workings. It uses AppleScript and Ruby, easily passed back and forth thanks to ...

Friday Favorite: Dropzone

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 21st, 2009)

One of my favorite new tools is Dropzone from Aptonic Software. Cory mentioned it back in early beta, but it's come a long way since then. Dropzone lets you set up "destinations," and when you click its icon in the dock it pops up a HUD-style window with icons for each destination. You can drop ...

Apple Tutorial: Developing with MacRuby

by Mat Lu (Oct 22nd, 2008)

Apple has posted an interesting new tutorial on developing OS X applications with MacRuby. MacRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language "ported to run directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C common runtime and garbage collector, and the CoreFoundation ...

WWDC schedule: Ajax to PDF

by Brett Terpstra (May 16th, 2008)

Developers and other WWDC attendees looking for a simple printout of the sessions and labs at the conference may be disappointed with the results when printing out Apple's (very slick) Ajax calendars. You could save the pages to PDFs and have a calendar format, but for the purposes of a nice, ...

24 Hours of Leopard: Ruby on Rails built-in

by Mike Schramm (Oct 25th, 2007)

Feature: The most awesome, easy, groovy, Web 2.0 development platform ever is now built-in to OS X. How it works: Like buttah. Ruby, the language that powers RoR, has actually been built-in to OS X for a while (don't believe me? type "irb" in your terminal right now to access interactive Ruby), but ...

BBEdit version 8.7 released

by Mike Schramm (Aug 7th, 2007)

BBEdit 8.7, the latest version of the triple-A HTML editor, has been released. Update: OK, so the reason I originally thought that all the "new" 8.7 features sounded familiar is because I actually was looking at the release list for version 8.5. The 8.7 release notice is here, and it includes Lua ...

RubyCocoa 0.11.0 released

by Mat Lu (May 24th, 2007)

RubyCocoa is a nifty "bridge" between Ruby and Objective-C (the language of Cocoa), that allows developers to "write full-stack Cocoa applications in Ruby" or a "Cocoa application that mixes Ruby and Objective-C code." It has just received a major update to version 0.11.0. The release notes list the ...

Platypus: create Mac applications from Ruby, Perl, shell scripts, etc.

by Mat Lu (May 8th, 2007)

MacResearch has posted a nice two part tutorial on using Platypus, a neat utility that allows you to "create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts." This include shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc. With Platypus you can turn command-line only tools into ...

Skip the AppleScript with Ruby

by Mat Lu (Mar 1st, 2007)

For a long time now I have been working on learning AppleScript, where "working on" means I bought an AppleScript book that sits on my table accusingly, but I've never actually picked it up and read through it. AppleScript is clearly a powerful and relatively easy way to get somewhat complex tasks ...

Ruby + AppleScript = RubyOSA

by David Chartier (Oct 26th, 2006)

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 ...

ActiveState releases Komodo 3.5.2 for OS X

by Scott McNulty (Dec 29th, 2005)

Komodo, a powerful IDE for various scripting languages and the like, has been released for OS X by ActiveState. Any time a company releases an IDE for OS X I do a little dance on the inside because it means that people are noticing the developer community that OS X has built up around it. More ...