Mac OS X Loves Ruby
summary
Mac OS X ships a supported Ruby distribution as a framework, includes ruby coco so Ruby can call Objective‑C and Cocoa APIs, and integrates with Xcode/Interface Builder to build GUI apps; a tool ruby inject lets Ruby run inside other processes via mach_inject; BridgeSupport supplies XML metadata so C APIs are usable from Ruby; DTrace probes trace Ruby in production; current limits are ObjC2 GC incompatibility and Ruby 1.8 thread safety, with plans to move to Ruby 1.9 and an Objective‑C based object model.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:15Whats New
- 4:27Backpack Red
- 6:23ObjectiveC
- 8:37Ruby
- 9:45First demo
- 18:29Ruby Inject
- 23:37Ruby Check
- 25:14Mac OS X Development Stack
- 38:52DTrace
- 42:39IRB
- 50:02Cocoa
