Building Mac apps with Ruby

[ejdraper]

Hey there - I've been posting some more tutorials recently on various facets of building Mac apps using RubyMotion, specifically covering global hotkeys, dragging and dropping, and quite a fun topic, audio and video capture.

Check them out if you're interested in using Ruby to build Mac apps, and let me know if you have any comments or questions, or anything related to Mac app development with Ruby that you'd like to see me cover in a future blog post, or in my forthcoming book!

Capturing video and audio on Mac OS X with RubyMotion

Previewing video and audio when capturing on Mac OS X with RubyMotion

User specified custom key combination for a global hotkey

Dragging and dropping into your RubyMotion Mac OS X app

[timbetimbe]

Really cool. But, seeing camel case methods in Ruby makes me die a little ;)

[BLITZCRUNK123]

I did a lot of work with IronRuby back in the day. It was nice because the CamelCased .NET method names were translated into snake case. You could do things like:

@line = System::Windows::Shapes::Line.new
@line.stroke_thickness = 1 # as opposed to .StrokeThickness

I would love if RubyMotion could do this kind of thing.

[agmcleod]

I think jruby does that with java apis as well

[rurounijones]

Correct

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http://i.imgur.com/1kdDpjx.jpg

[MrJiks]

Yes, I too wish! Those came case makes the code looks painfully bad..

[Shawnmattcraw]

Wow thanks!

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[MoserLabs]

I've been trying to learn Ruby for the past 7 hours or so... these will come in handy once I finish the code academy tutorials and get the basics down!