Meet MacRuby
By Geoffrey Grosenbach and Alex Vollmer
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Description
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 is VP of Open Source at Pluralsight. He founded PeepCode and has created numerous courses on Ruby, JavaScript and Shell.
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Alex has been in software development for over fifteen years. He's worked on a wide variety of systems and languages including web frameworks, databases and networking applications. Since the original iOS SDK was released in 2007 he has focused on iOS development.