# Ruby Cocoa Droplet?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-cocoa-droplet/70090>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 18, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-cocoa-droplet/70090 "2006-02-18T16:54:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-cocoa-droplet/70090/1 "2006-02-18T16:54:29Z")

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I’m a Ruby N… I plan on using rails for my web related Ruby  
adventures, and have been considering Ruby Cocoa for a first try at  
writing stand alone desktop apps - but don’t know anything about it yet.

I have a simple idea for a first ruby program I would like to write, and  
it would really be sweet if it could easily wind up as a small Mac  
applet that you just drop a text file on and it automatically generates  
an output file from that.

I was wondering if there is easy support in Ruby Cocoa for this use  
model, or would it require a bunch of “roll your own” effort for the  
droplet aspect of the program?

Is there some other even simpler way to do a droplet app with Ruby?

thanks,  
jp

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**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-cocoa-droplet/70090/2 "2006-02-19T06:54:49Z")

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In article [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid),  
Jeff P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> model, or would it require a bunch of “roll your own” effort for the  
> droplet aspect of the program?
> 
> Is there some other even simpler way to do a droplet app with Ruby?

Look for DropScript. You drag a script onto it and it turns it into a  
droplet application.

–  
Joe B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

Have GNU, will travel.

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**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-cocoa-droplet/70090/3 "2006-02-19T18:36:35Z")

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Hey, thanks Joe! This is cool!

jp

Joe B. wrote:

> In article [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid),  
> Jeff P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > model, or would it require a bunch of “roll your own” effort for the  
> > droplet aspect of the program?
> > 
> > Is there some other even simpler way to do a droplet app with Ruby?
> 
> Look for DropScript. You drag a script onto it and it turns it into a  
> droplet application.
> 
> –  
> Joe B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
> 
> Have GNU, will travel.