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MacRuby Random Number Generator Tutorial

There is a very popular book out there for learning Cocoa called Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition by Aaron Hillegass. A number of people have suggested that, even if I want to program using RubyCocoa or MacRuby and don’t care much for learning the Objective-C language, you can learn a lot by [...]

Browser Tutorial #1: Creating a Simple Web Browser in RubyCocoa

The Webkit framework has made it ridiculously easy to create a browser as part of any OS X application and there are tutorials all over the web to show how this can be done in Cocoa applications. For the basics, it doesn’t require any code at all, so it comes as no surprise that this [...]

MacRuby Tutorial

There is a nice and simple tutorial that can be found towards the end of this page at the MacRuby site. I gave it a try but also wanted to test the way that MacRuby can seamlessly convert to and from Cocoa strings without conversion.
In the following screencast I create a simple MacRuby application that [...]