Greetings, It's looking very interesting, and I bought it...! I have to admit I'm slightly frustrated by the parts that go deep into the non-MacRuby aspects of Mac OS X development (IB and the entity designer) and then skim over what I feel are important details. The chapter I always come back to is the Core Data chapter, which only really covers visually designing your data model, and using IB to make the UI for it. Nothing more than a passing mention on managedObjectContext, and nothing at all on building predicates, querying Core Data using them, or...well...anything that isn't covered by the trivial NSArrayController.
I understand the chapter's not done yet, and I very much look forward to seeing how it looks when it's finished! It's probably a personal frustration, because what I'm trying to do with MacRuby is just not covered by the book at all. After reading through it so far, it's clearly a VERY good introductory guide to building OS X apps with MacRuby, and I'm just keenly feeling the lack of a more advanced book on the topic. That said, the resource of everybody here, and on Twitter, is amazing, and has helped immensely! I've got a basic app up with a working source-list style folders, supporting drag-and-drop from browsers, custom cells and customizable columns in a populated table view, networking operations, HTML parsing, and image manipulation all in less than 500 lines of MacRuby. That's pretty fracking amazing! :) I've certainly got a long way to go before I've got a finished application, but the power of MacRuby is just astonishing. I'd love to see a list of what apps HAVE been published to the Mac App Store using MacRuby, if anybody is keeping such a list? Partially just to bask in the coolness, but also to have an idea how the UI of those apps fleshed out... Thanks again, -- Morgan On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Nick Ludlam <n...@recoil.org> wrote: > On 3 Feb 2011, at 03:58, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > > This sale price is still good! > > > I've just bought my copy, too. Keep up the brilliant work, Matt! > > Between this, and the fact that people are already publishing MacRuby apps > to the Mac app store, it seems like this is a really good place to be. > > > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >
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