How to use some ruby with objective-c

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How to use some ruby with objective-c

I don't want to go the full rubyobjc, how would I be able to use a few ruby-terms in my cocoa/objective-c code?

The reason I want to switch is because I really like ruby's syntax. It's awesome! If it's not possible, then I'm wondering if rubyobjc is good...

Unfortunately I've heard that when using rubyobjc there isn't a nib/interface builder.

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Check out MacRuby, I was just watching a screencast on it the other day and he was able to use Interface Builder and call objective-c methods and ruby methods together to build a simple osx desktop app.

And now that Apple has lifted restrictions on iOS software, it might be possible to use it for iPhone/iPad development.

Dan McNevin 2010-09-17 20:24:19

MacRuby is not usable for iOS development, mainly due to the fact that it requires garbage collection in the system frameworks.

Chuck 2010-09-17 23:19:10

Apparently Apple is working on it, though: https://twitter.com/applespotlight/status/24302410536

Dan McNevin 2010-09-18 00:17:01

Thanks, I just looked at some example code and it's really cool! Although I'm having many difficulties installing though.

alexy13 2010-09-18 13:27:15

You can't mix Ruby terms or syntax into Objective-C source files. You may be able to make some classes in Ruby (with MacRuby) and other classes in Objective-C, though.

Peter Hosey 2010-09-18 04:21:00

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