5 Easy Steps To Your First RubyCocoa Application

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This is my preparation for the Cetik Event 2010. 2009 I promised to hold a lecture about creating an simple RubyCocoa application.

What you need

  • Macintosh of your choice
  • MacOS X 10.5 oder 10.6 (10.4 users have to install RubyCocoa theirselves)
  • XCode 2.4 or higher[1]
  • some time

Step 01: Creating the project

  1. Click Create a new XCode project...
    RubyCocoaTutorialStep1CreatingTheProject01.png
  2. ...choose Application on the left and Cocoa Application on the right and click Choose......
    RubyCocoaTutorialStep1CreatingTheProject02.png
  3. ...choose a cosy[2] place and a name for your project, I named it Wikipedia...
    RubyCocoaTutorialStep1CreatingTheProject03.png
  4. ...this is your newly created project...
    RubyCocoaTutorialStep1CreatingTheProject04.png
  5. ...edit main.m and paste the following...
    #import <RubyCocoa/RBRuntime.h>
    int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
    {
    return RBApplicationMain("rb_main.rb", argc, argv);
    }
    RubyCocoaTutorialStep1CreatingTheProject05.png

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At this time you can already run the application. I will show an empty window, can be quit and even has a about box. Not bad for zero programming. If you're too lazy to do the above steps, you might want to download this.

Step 02: ?


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  • Fußnoten:
  1. I used XCode 3.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 to create this tutorial
  2. As you might have guessed, I prefer british english :-)