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In our Ruby developer career there may come a time when we have to deploy our app with other versions of Ruby. We may also take a fancy to implementations such as MacRuby, and want to try them out. However, installing many different versions of Ruby on the same box...

In this screencast Renzo Borgatti introduces MacRuby, a Mac OS X implementation of the Ruby language. After a brief introduction and some examples from the command line, Renzo guides us in building an application with Xcode and, finally, with HotCocoa, an idiomatic library that allows us to program graphical interfaces...

Last year, Apple released MacRuby, an open source Ruby implementation written on top of the Objective-C runtime. Writing native MacOSX applications in Ruby without having to pay the cost of using a bridge is now a reality. This is an important milestone for Ruby, Apple and the Ruby community. Matt Aimonetti will explain the implementation, show how to build desktop applications with MacRuby & HotCocoa, and discuss why Ruby developers should add this new tool to their utility belt. Matt will also talk about the future of MacRuby. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

by Alex Vollmer and Geoffrey Grosenbach MacRuby takes the “almost” out of “almost a desktop experience.” With MacRuby, you can write real Mac OS X desktop applications with Ruby. MacRuby is a Ruby interpreter built by Apple on top of Objective-C. Unlike other scripting interfaces to the Cocoa frameworks, MacRuby...