A few links to some RubyCocoa tutorials I found helpful in addition to the ones you can find on this weblog:
Bowled over by RubyCocoa
This is a wonderful tutorial that both teaches you some basic GUI programming with RubyCocoa while teaching you a testing approach. I don’t recommend it for complete beginners, however.
Selectable Toolbar Icons in [...]
There is a very popular book out there for learning Cocoa called Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition by Aaron Hillegass. A number of people have suggested that, even if I want to program using RubyCocoa or MacRuby and don’t care much for learning the Objective-C language, you can learn a lot by [...]
The Webkit framework has made it ridiculously easy to create a browser as part of any OS X application and there are tutorials all over the web to show how this can be done in Cocoa applications. For the basics, it doesn’t require any code at all, so it comes as no surprise that this [...]
Do you want to have a nice “Check for Updates…” feature in your new application without having to code it yourself? The Sparkle module provides a wonderful and free way of implementing this in your application.
This tutorial is essentially a modified version of the tutorial I created for using the Sparkle updates module on my [...]
There is a nice and simple tutorial that can be found towards the end of this page at the MacRuby site. I gave it a try but also wanted to test the way that MacRuby can seamlessly convert to and from Cocoa strings without conversion.
In the following screencast I create a simple MacRuby application that [...]
Satoshi Nakagawa, a contributor to RubyCocoa’s development and the creator of the IRC chat client LimeChat has some great resources online that can help with learning RubyCocoa. They are mostly in Japanese so there are many who won’t be able to benefit from them.
I especially liked some really clear and simple tutorials for RubyCocoa [...]
After installing MacRuby 0.2 I tried to follow the tutorial available online. However, I discovered XCode 3.1 didn’t display the “MacRuby Application” project template the way the tutorial indicated it should.
I spoke to MacRuby developer lrz on #ruby-osx yesterday, and he was kind enough to send me an empty MacRuby project that can be used [...]
There is a good mailing list out there for RubyCocoa and a development mailing list for MacRuby.
In order to create an online forum for discussing development with Ruby and Cocoa I created a new Google Group where people working with MacRuby, RubyCocoa, or RubyObjC can gather to discuss Ruby and Cocoa development issues:
Ruby and Cocoa [...]
I’m not a programmer by trade. This weblog is maintained by a student of history who likes to tinker with coding on the side for OS X and some online websites. For a few weeks I have tried to rewrite an old OS 9 project using AppleScript Studio and posted some tips and tutorials on [...]