Ruby as an alternative to Applescript article

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Hi,

There is an article on O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter about rb-appscript
a way to use Ruby as a front-end to interact via AppleEvents with
applications.
There is a dmg to install everything. It’s a pprt from Python so
the examples are in Python syntax.

However, the only example Ruby does not work.

Anyone has tried it yet?
J-P

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Jaypee a écrit :

Anyone has tried it yet?
J-P

Sorry, I forgot an essential include (include Appscript). With
that the example works fine.

J-P

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On 3 Mar, 08:49, Jaypee [email protected] wrote:

There is an article on O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter about rb-appscript
a way to use Ruby as a front-end to interact via AppleEvents with
applications.
There is a dmg to install everything. It’s a pprt from Python so
the examples are in Python syntax.

However, the only example Ruby does not work.

You’re referring to the .dmg at <http://rubyforge.org/frs/?
group_id=2346&release_id=9094>, yes? That .dmg should include the
following:

  • ‘README’ file
  • binary PPC and i386 .pkg installers for Apple-installed Ruby on
    Tiger
  • an ‘rb-appscript-0.3.0’ folder containing the full source
    distribution, including full documentation (the ‘doc’ sub-folder) and
    over a dozen sample Ruby scripts (the ‘sample’ sub-folder).

While rb-appscript is a port of the original Python appscript, there
shouldn’t be any Pythonisms left in rb-appscript or on its website. If
I’ve missed any, please let me know exactly where and I’ll go fix 'em
ASAP.

HTH

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