Pure Ruby App that receives events

Ruby
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Does anyone know if it is possible to have a Ruby application that
receives Apple Events? I assume it would be in an event loop. Really,
what I’m asking is if I can create a pure Ruby app that behaves like a
“first class” application as Apple has promised.

Thank you,
pedz

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On 10 aug, 15:53, Perry S. [email protected] wrote:

Does anyone know if it is possible to have a Ruby application that
receives Apple Events? I assume it would be in an event loop. Really,
what I’m asking is if I can create a pure Ruby app that behaves like a
“first class” application as Apple has promised.

It may not be a bad idea to do a few standard Cocoa with Objective-C
tutorials and familiarize yourself with the framework a bit.

If you want to use Ruby there is a Cocoa wrapper called RubyCocoa, it
is supported by Apple:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/RubyPythonCocoa/Introduction/Introduction.html

I found one article that seems to deal with events:

HTH

Francis

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On Aug 10, 2008, at 3:20 PM, hengist podd wrote:

HTH

has

Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net

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Also take a look at MacRuby
It is still in it’s formative stages, but is the next level of
bridging Ruby and Cocoa.

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Dolazy wrote:

I found one article that seems to deal with events:
http://codeintensity.blogspot.com/2008/01/rubycocoa-rocks.html

Installing event handlers via NSAppleEventManager is fine for simple
tasks. For full-blown scripting interfaces that expose a query-able
object model a-la Finder, Mail, etc., Cocoa Scripting would be more
appropriate (if a bear to get right). Matt N. - who often lurks
around this list - would be the best person to speak to.

HTH

has

Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net