#macruby

[fuckyeahmackenzieboyd]

I’m kinda going to need Mack to go full on protective bestie mode and ask everyone what the fuck is wrong with them and what the fuck has Aaron done so wrong in his life to have people continually treat him like shit and repeatedly lie to him.

Actually.. Mack AND Ruby.

They gonna come down on the whole lot of them!!

You’ve got some making up to do, Sugden!

[rubystonesecret]

[rubystonesecret]

[riding-the-rails]

MacRuby is essentially dead

Was trying to check out MacRuby because I did see they had a pretty good tutorial. After downloading and getting it running in Xcode, I ran into problems, I ran into problem #226. It also hasn't been committed to since August 2013 which is close to a year now.

I mean it is open source and I could help update it but I really am not that smart, so I'll just just can that idea. So I would say basically MacRuby is dead.

Sure you can get RubyMotion but it's not free to casually try out. For me it's MYR 681.69.  Which is about 30% of an average monthly salary here. I understand people need to make money, and once I need it for a project I'll definitely pay and look into it. 

[viewbookinspirations-blog]

iOS Apps met RubyMotion

http://www.rubymotion.com/ En MacRuby t.o.v. Objective-C: http://redwoodapp.posterous.com/ MacRuby Apps: http://redwoodapp.com/ http://briquetteapp.com/ Apple werkt zelf mee aan MacRuby.

[ladyofcocoa]

Using Bundler with MacRuby

Here's how I got Bundler to work with my MacRuby app.

Create your Gemfile.

Run rvm info and find GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH.

Go into Xcode and hit Project > Edit Scheme. Click into run MyApp.app, then select the Arguments tab. Enter the GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH variables and values into Environment variables.

In rb_main.rb add require 'rubygems' followed by the gems you want to use. You can now run bundle install from the command line, and then you'll be able to use your gems in MacRuby!

[kazu69]

[mikeynine]

CocoaPods .. RubyGems for Objective C.

So I'm just starting to get into MacRuby... I'm getting stoked on the idea of one language to do it all... but today, after talking with some people in #MacRuby (freenode) and reading this, I realize that moving forward with MacRuby seems like a bad idea.. I really like the idea of being able to use ruby for Native app development (MacRuby), iOS app development using (Motion) and web app development (Rails).. obviously.. it makes sense. But with it looking like ruby is turning red-headed in the eyes of Apple... probably not going to go much farther with it. 

So what next.. Even though it has nothing to do with ruby, I stumbled upon CocoaPods.. It's basically RubyGems for Cocoa apps. I just tried it and it's pretty bad ass.. you create a "Podfile" (sound familiar) in your root project folder which defines the pods you want to use, just as a Gemfile would, as well as the target platform and version and run "pod install". It creates an Xcode workspace with all of the dependencies set up for you. It's pretty sweet!

CocoaPods is actually distributed and installed as a ruby gem. Here's how you do it: 

$ [sudo] gem install cocoapods $ pod setup

(taken directly from the cocoapods.org main install page)

Once you do that, you're good to go. It doesn't keep the dream of one unified language for all platforms alive, but it looks like it will definitely make life easier. Try it, you might like it.