Comments on: MacRuby Tutorial

By: tp

tp — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:31:49 +0000

This is not the MacRuby language, it’s RubyCocoa.

In the MacRuby language you don’t need to add ‘ < NSWindow Controller’ and instead of ‘ib_outlet’ you use ‘attr_writer’ and ‘attr_accessor’
You also don’t use ‘ib_action :clicked …’ but ‘def clicked(sender)’

By: Ratchet

Ratchet — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:03:30 +0000

I always got the message “`ClickTestButton’: undefined method `stringValue’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)”
What am I doing wrong?

By: Eric Berry

Eric Berry — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:09:56 +0000

Keep them coming. This is a great screencast, and there is definitely a shortage of them.

By: Toby

Toby — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:26:26 +0000

This is really sweet. So nice to have something to help with those first few moments with InterfaceBuilder. Thank you.

By: David Jordan

David Jordan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:40:26 +0000

My son is interested in learning to program, and specifically for his new iTouch. I’d rather he learn (and I teach him) Ruby instead of Objective-C. Can one use MacRuby on the latest iPhone SDK?

By: K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:00:43 +0000

Doh, another error. Ok, I updated this in the posting and in the XCode project download . I also made a small adjustment in the end of the screencast and it is exporting now. It should be uploaded in an hour or so.

By: Laurent Sansonetti

Laurent Sansonetti — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:30:27 +0000

Great, this second version is better!

Just a small note, the real method to be called here should be stringValue=, which sounds more rubyish. The fact that StringValue= (with a capital letter) works is pure luck, because of a bug in MacRuby

Thanks for the screencast, and keep up the very good work!

By: Jeremy Nicoll

Jeremy Nicoll — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:41:32 +0000

Way cool! Ruby is really making inroads, isn’t it?