Have to agree with Brian regarding Hillegass.
You can compare with my examples here : (http://www.johnmacshea.org/examples/
- which i will try to keep mirrored here:http://idisk.mac.com/johnmshea-Public?view=web
since i may turn my mac mini off when i go on holidays).
I would suggest trying to solve them yourself first, perhaps take as a
challenge the ones I failed to do.
Alternatively you could do something more challenging and broaden the
MacRuby example ecosystem.
Like what about :
- translating the Cocoa book at the Pragmatic Programmers
(http://www.pragprog.com/titles/dscpq/cocoa-programming)?
- or even the FXRuby book there (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fxruby/fxruby)?
- there is a pdf book called Flexible Rails (http://www.flexiblerails.com/
) using Flex obviously as the GUI - I had a quick look and I think (I
have done a bit of Flex before) - it would be far easier in MacRuby.
- why the lucky stiff's shoe examples (http://the-shoebox.org/)?
For that I don't expect you could get the same succinctness of code
unless you create a similar DSL layer like _why has for his shoes, but
these examples might be a good showcase for HotCocoa.
Cheers,
J
On Feb 9, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Brian Chapados wrote:
It is well worth your time to learn the basics of C and Objective-C,
even if your ultimate goal is to mainly use MacRuby
(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html ect.).
They are small languages, and everything you need is covered in about
200 pages[1,2]. The cocoa libraries are vast, but powerful and the
documentation is decent. The Hillegass book[3] will bring you up to
speed on how to use the libraries and tools to build gui apps. Once
you understand some of the basic patterns and conventions that are
used, you'll have all of the available cocoa info at your disposal.
For Obj-C/Cocoa/Ruby, I recommend these references:
C/Obj-C/Cocoa
--------------------
[1] "The C Programming Language", Kernighan & Ritchie
[2] "Introduction to The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language", Apple
(free online)
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html
[3] "Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX", Hillegass
Start with 3 and refer back to 1 & 2, when necessary. Buy a copy of
Hillegass' book, then clone Dr. Nic's hillegass-macruby repo
(http://github.com/drnic/hillegass-macruby/tree/master). Work on
porting the examples from Objective-C to MacRuby.
You might also want to check out these recommendations:
http://programming.nu/objective-c
Ruby
-------
"Programming Ruby" (Pickaxe book) Thomas
"The Ruby Way", Fulton
For Ruby idioms, there is also an excellent SDRuby talk by Tom Werner
on Ruby Idioms:
http://podcast.sdruby.com/2007/1/16/episode-014-ruby-idioms-part-1
Slides from a 2003 talk by Hal Fulton - "Rubyesque API":
http://www.approximity.com/euruko03/slides/hal/rubyesque/slide1.html
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Robert Schaaf <rwsch...@comcast.net>
wrote:
Tedd,
To quote Ogden Nash, I'm a stranger here myself.
I agree about objective-c; it's notationally unattractive. It
seems to be
an uncomfortable hybrid, despite the power of the object model.
The only appreciable Ruby code I've written is a program that
parses the
header of a DB2 IXF file (a database dump) and loads it into Excel
preserving data types. It uses Appscript, so it's a no-go in
MacRuby. I'm
now rewriting it to load the DB2 data into postgres.
BTW, can anyone recommend a book on Ruby idioms, frinstance: change
all 'x'
in a string to 'y'?
Bob Schaaf
On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Tedd Fox wrote:
Awesome advice!!! I actually "accidentally" did that last night :-)
Thanks! I am learning Ruby and I am a Macintosh NOT but do not
"get"
objective-C for some reason, so I am choosing MacRuby as my
Speciality. I
am glad MacRuby came along :-)
I like the faster prototyping ability (which is exactly what I
need).
Any other advice for a newb? A real newb?
On Feb 8, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Robert Schaaf wrote:
Hello Tedd,
This happened to me until I realized that I updated from the
testing
branch, rather than the development branch. My guess is that
you've done
the same.
You need to go here <http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/MacRubyDevelopment
>
and follow the directions at the top of the page.
Then you need to wait for documentation, and more frameworks
mapped.
Then you need to wait for the ability to lay out your windows
precisely,
in a Cocoa-compliant way. (The sliders in the Layout View app
are an
egregiously awful example!)
Or learn to integrate it with Interface Builder.
Also, MacRuby, which is wonderful beyond measure, will have to
mature.
Without gems, life is not worth living.
Bob Schaaf
On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Tedd Fox wrote:
Sorry for the newb question, but how can one upgrade from .3?
On Feb 8, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Vincent Isambart wrote:
Macintosh:vincentisambart-hotconsole-
cbdd6d06ece482e124516359cd9299294667daeb
barry$ macrake
(in
/Users/barry/dev/vincentisambart-hotconsole-
cbdd6d06ece482e124516359cd9299294667daeb)
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- hotcocoa/standard_rake_tasks
/Users/barry/dev/vincentisambart-hotconsole-
cbdd6d06ece482e124516359cd9299294667daeb/rakefile:2:in
`require'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
This means you are using an old version of MacRuby, probably
0.3. You
can check it by running macruby -v, or in macirb by displaying
MACRUBY_VERSION and MACRUBY_REVISION.
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