Learning About MacRuby

Welcome to MacRuby’s documentation center. Here you will find the information you need to get up and running and building OS X applications with MacRuby in no time. If you have not read the Introductory Tutorial, its a great way to get started.

If you are wondering why in the world MacRuby exists you can read that in the Why MacRuby? page. If you want documentation on HotCocoa you can find it here. You can catch up on the latest news by following the MacRuby Blog.

Below are a list of tutorials and recipes for MacRuby. Tutorials are the longest content and delve deep on a particular area. Recipes are short and specific examples of how to accomplish something with MacRuby.

In addition to the documentation available here, MacRuby team member, Matt Aimonetti keeps a HTML version of the manuscript of his O’Reilly book online and available for free at this url.

Screencasts

• 2010-04-10 Introduction to MacRuby and HotCocoa Renzo Borgatti (ThinkCode.TV)
• 2009-11-10 Introduzione a MacRuby e HotCocoa (Italian) Renzo Borgatti (ThinkCode.TV)
• 2009-05-19 Meet MacRuby Geoffrey Grosenbach (Peepcode)
• 2009-05-19 MacRuby Presentation (Free) Geoffrey Grosenbach (Peepcode)
• 2009-05-05 MacRuby – Bonus Track (Free) Mike Clark (Pragmatic Studio)
• 2009-05-11 Embedding MacRuby – Bonus track (Free) Mike Clark (Pragmatic Studio)

Tutorials

• 2010-10-06The Sandbox classBy Rob Gleeson
  
• 2010-08-23Reading an mp3 with a MacRuby bundleBy Nick Ludlam
  
• 2010-06-23Essential Differences between RubyCocoa and MacRubyBy Patrick Thomson
  
• 2010-01-22An Introduction to GCD with MacRubyBy Patrick Thomson
  
• 2009-08-27Contributing to the MacRuby websiteBy Mike Sassak
  
• 2009-05-29HotCocoa Tutorial — Adding FunctionalityBy dj2
  
• 2009-05-29HotCocoa Tutorial — Application LayoutBy dj2
  
• 2009-05-29HotCocoa Tutorial — Getting StartedBy dj2
  
• 2009-03-11Introductory TutorialBy Laurent Sansonetti
  
• 2008-10-31HotCocoa Mappings TutorialBy Rich Kilmer

Recipes

• 2009-10-25Browse for folder or file dialogBy Matt Aimonetti
  
• 2009-10-08Test Driven Development in Objective-C with MacRubyBy Joshua Ballanco
  
• 2009-10-07How to play an Audio fileBy Matt Aimonetti
  
• 2009-10-06Embed a custom fontBy Matt Aimonetti
  
• 2009-05-31Creating an Objective-C bundle to use with MacRubyBy Matt Aimonetti

Talks

• 2010-11-12 MacRuby – Why and How (slides) Matt Aimonetti (RubyConf 2010)
• 2009-11-20 Simple 2D Video Game in MacRuby (slides) Matt Aimonetti (RubyConf 2009)
• 2009-10-30 MacRuby & RubyCocoa (slides only) Eloy Duran (RubyEnRails)
• 2009-10-14 MacRuby Rich Kilmer (RailsSummit)
• 2009-10-03 Intro to MacRuby (slides only) Olivier Gutknecht (OSDC.fr)
• 2009-05-27 MacRuby & HotCocoa (slides only) Thilo Utke (RailsWayCon)
• 2009-04-22 MacRuby and HotCocoa (slides only) Rich Kilmer (GoGaruCo)
• 2009-01-13 MacRuby: What’s the big deal? (slides) Matt Aimonetti (SDRuby)
• 2008-11-07 OS X Application Development with HotCocoa Rich Kilmer (RubyConf)
• 2008-11-06 MacRuby: Ruby for your Mac Laurent Sansonetti (RubyConf)