# Rucola 0.0.1 released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 4, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rucola-0-0-1-released/119184 "2007-11-04T16:14:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/el-oy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rucola-0-0-1-released/119184/1 "2007-11-04T16:14:08Z")
Hello, Yesterday we released the first alpha version of rucola: [http://rucola.rubyforge.org/](http://rucola.rubyforge.org/) For a screencast (showed at RubyConf by Dr Nic) using the rucola command see this post: [http://www.superalloy.nl/blog/2007/11/04/rucola-a-rubycocoa-application-builder/](http://www.superalloy.nl/blog/2007/11/04/rucola-a-rubycocoa-application-builder/) Cheers, Eloy D. & Justin Palmer ======================================================================== A Framework for building Cocoa applications in Ruby Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa apps. It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake commands, eliminating the need to use XCode, however you can use XCode if you wish. Rucola provides a set of generators to help you generate controllers, window controllers, and document-based applications. It also provides APIs for simplifying some of Objective-C’s ways of doing things. ---
**Author:** ![el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/el-oy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rucola-0-0-1-released/119184/2 "2007-11-04T19:19:11Z")
Excellent beginning! I was just thinking about such things on the toilet this morning (of course, where else?). With RubyCocoa now officially bundled in OS X, it is only a matter of months before this kind of thing explodes. I was thinking about: Using ActiveRecord, and potentially some sort of Rails-like framework. But for OS X development, there is no reason to install MySQL, rather, just use SQLite, since it too is bundled and is commonly used by Mac applications. Using WebKit as a super-lazy, “no need to learn Cocoa” approach to building an app. Even for developing Dashboard Widgets… a Ruby solution would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/el-oy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rucola-0-0-1-released/119184/3 "2007-11-04T19:34:25Z")
Hi John, There is also already some code in RubyCocoa that allows you to use ActiveRecord (with for instance SQLite) in combination with Cocoa bindings. [http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/ActiveRecordSupport](http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/ActiveRecordSupport) It doesn’t support everything (yet) of course, but it’s a good basis for such glue code. And bindings will make you happy… generally 🙂 Actually I think that the “no need to learn” cocoa is not gonna happen. But it will also not be such a problem with projects like Rucola I think, because you get up and running in way which is generally known to ruby devs. Instead of (the pain of) learning xcode etc. Once you get past that you will see that cocoa is a very nice environment to work in. And Interface Builder rocks! Cheers, Eloy PS: I thought everybody did their coding exclusively on the toilet? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/el-oy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rucola-0-0-1-released/119184/4 "2007-11-05T03:16:39Z")
I’ve been working through some books on Cocoa lately to be a little prepared. It’s just that Cocoa is such a HUGE framework, and so much of the framework was written long ago and it shows with some of the naming schemes and concept names. Learning R. and Rails actually makes Cocoa much easier to swallow I think. So whenever I get the spare cash to get a new Mac, I’ll be monkeying with RubyCocoa (and maybe Rucola). This iBook G4 can probably run Leopard, but I already have so much set up on here that I need to keep it as is until something new is set up to take its place. ---
**Author:** ![el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/el-oy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rucola-0-0-1-released/119184/5 "2007-11-05T12:46:48Z")
I remember it being introduced or at least getting a little hype back in the Panther days. That’s the first time I heard of Ruby. I’m kind of waiting though, I’m very curious to see what Xcode 3 will do for me. It’s really tough to imagine doing Ruby in anything other than TextMate now. TM spoiled me… ---
**Author:** ![el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/el-oy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rucola-0-0-1-released/119184/6 "2007-11-05T09:58:13Z")
Just to be clear, you don’t need Leopard to play with RubyCocoa. It will just as happily work on Tiger. Although with less framework support than Leopard, it’s still very usable foor the majority of the applications. You could even run it on Panther with some extra work. Eloy ---
**Author:** ![el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@el-oy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/el-oy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rucola-0-0-1-released/119184/7 "2007-11-05T13:21:55Z")
I use TextMate exclusively with my RubyCocoa projects. There’s no added benefit for me of working with Xcode. Of course I sometimes need to use it to tweak app settings, but that’s about it. Eloy