Macruby in Action

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Pub. Date: 2012-04-17
Publisher(s): Manning Pubns Co
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Summary

For developers who have learned the elegant and highly productive Ruby language, it can be a real drag to switch back to a traditional static programming tool like Objective-C. MacRuby, a Ruby 1.9 implementation that sits directly on the Mac OS X core, gives Rubyists the potential to code Cocoa apps without sacrificing the language features they've come to depend on. MacRuby In Action is a tutorial for Ruby developers who want to code for OS X without learning Objective-C. Readers will learn the ins and outs of the MacRuby language, including straightforward examples of creating OS X applications using Cocoa components. The core of the book is an example-driven tour of the Cocoa framework from the Ruby perspective that focuses on getting things done.

Author Biography

Brendan G. Lim is a professional Ruby and Objective-C developer who specializes in developing Ruby on Rails, Android, and iOS applications. A noted conference presenter, Brendan is co-founder of Kicksend, a file-sharing start-up.

Jerry Cheung loves creating software. He started experimenting with Ruby on Rails in 2007 and has been hooked on Ruby ever since. Upon graduating from Berkeley, he joined Coupa and later went on to start his own company Outspokes with several friends from Berkeley. He currently works as a Rails engineer at Intridea, and experiments with emerging technologies like Macruby, and Node.js.

Jeremy McAnally is founder and principal at Arcturo, a web and mobile development firm. He is also coauthor of Ruby in Practice. Jerry spends his days hacking Ruby and Objective-C.

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