Thank you very much Jean-Denis, you've provided me with very valuable information.
My publisher and I have been trying to define the audience for the book and what content belongs to the book. We've been lacking feedback from readers like you, people experienced with Cocoa but looking to use MacRuby instead or with Objective-C. I took note of everything you wrote and will do my best to cover all or most of the mentioned topics. Andy my editor suggested to start working on appendix for some of these topics we can't really find a spot for. We are also going to try to give more pointers to people starting with Ruby so even though we don't teach Ruby we can help the reader easily find the information he/she might be missing. Caio, at this point, there aren't any tools that are mature enough and provide the type of features provided by Xcode. I understand your interest, but writing a book is a lot of work and unfortunately, one has to make hard choices. That's exactly why I won't be covering HotCocoa or alternatives to Xcode :( - Matt On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Caio Chassot <li...@caiochassot.com> wrote: > On 2011-02-04, at 07:30 , Jean-Denis Muys wrote: > > > > I am at the other end of the spectrum: I am an experienced > Cocoa/Objective-C programmer and a Ruby newbie. > > And I'm back at the ruby expert, cocoa newbie, yet… > > > I expect the book to address two facets of software development with > MacRuby: > > … I'm very much in agreement with the list of things Jean-Denis listed > here. > > I'd only add a complement to "Using Xcode with MacRuby": Using MacRuby > WITHOUT Xcode. > > Rubyists tend to like stuff simple: plain text files for configs, CLI-based > tools. Interface Builder is more-or-less inevitable, but otherwise I'd love > to stay away from Xcode, particularly as a build tool. > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >
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