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MacRuby For Ruby Developers

The document discusses MacRuby, a Ruby 1.9 fork aimed at Ruby developers, highlighting its integration with Cocoa, Objective-C, and various features including the ability to run in different environments and leverage Grand Central Dispatch. It emphasizes that Rails developers need not sacrifice testing or automation while adopting MacRuby, which also supports key frameworks like CoreData for persistence. Future developments are mentioned, including command-line debugging and potential support for Rails and RSpec.

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http://github.com/reborg/talk-macruby/tree/src_2010 @reborg MacRuby for Ruby Developers Renzo Borgatti - Scottish Ruby Conference 2010
What’s MacRuby? Ruby 1.9 Fork Since MacRuby 0.5 STDlib Parser LLVM Core Foundations Cocoa Objective-C GC RunTime
Ruby on Mac 2002 OS X 10.2 Ruby 1.6.7 2005 OS X 10.4 Ruby 1.8.2 RubyCocoa 2007 OS X 10.5 Ruby 1.8.6 2009 OS X 10.6 MacRuby Ruby 1.8.7
Scenarios OBJ-C Ruby Eval Grand Central Dispatch ScriptingBridge Compile Ruby executables And many more...
Good Reasons Waaay terser syntax Less lines of code No unnecessary files Double the amount of libraries Interface Builder
Grand Central Dispatch Task C Task B Task A Thread 1 Thread 2 Core 1 Core 2 Queue Demo Time
But I’m a Rails developer! No need to give up testing (mocha, matchy, bacon) No need to give up rake automation No need to give up MVC No need to give up favorite editor Learn Objective-C and Cocoa on the go BTW: MacRuby *will* eventually run RSpec, Rails… Demo Time
What about persistency? CoreData is a stable and powerful framework Awesome Cocoa and Interface Builder integration SQLite under the hood (perfect for desktop app) Binary PLists or XML if you want Demo Time
Future MacRuby 0.6 (good guess: command line debugger, C extensions support, Rails Hello World, RSpec) Inclusion in the next releases of Mac Os iPhone
Pomodori http://reborg.github.com/pomodori
Resources http://www.macruby.org http://blog.reborg.net http://reborg.github.com/pomodori http://it.thinkcode.tv/english
Check out ThinkCode.TV ! English channel almost ready with a shiny new MacRuby screencast and much more!