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Meet MacRuby

Learn to write real Mac OS X desktop applications with Ruby using MacRuby.

Geoffrey Grosenbach - Pluralsight course - Meet MacRuby
by Geoffrey Grosenbach
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MacRuby takes the "almost" out of "almost a desktop experience." With MacRuby, you can write real Mac OS X desktop applications with Ruby. MacRuby is a Ruby interpreter built by Apple on top of Objective-C. Unlike other scripting interfaces to the Cocoa frameworks, MacRuby objects are fully functional peers of Objective-C objects with no translation layer. This means that your Ruby applications can do almost anything a compiled application could do, and at near-native speed.

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Geoffrey Grosenbach - Pluralsight course - Meet MacRuby
Geoffrey Grosenbach

Geoffrey founded PeepCode and has created numerous courses on Ruby, JavaScript and Shell.

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