Joe Block
2/19/2006 5:53:00 AM
In article <f95b419724bc3c5496821138b85c3f5e@ruby-forum.com>,
Jeff Pritchard <jp@jeffpritchard.com> wrote:
> I'm a Ruby Nuby. I plan on using rails for my web related Ruby
> adventures, and have been considering Ruby Cocoa for a first try at
> writing stand alone desktop apps - but don't know anything about it yet.
>
> I have a simple idea for a first ruby program I would like to write, and
> it would really be sweet if it could easily wind up as a small Mac
> applet that you just drop a text file on and it automatically generates
> an output file from that.
>
> I was wondering if there is easy support in Ruby Cocoa for this use
> model, or would it require a bunch of "roll your own" effort for the
> droplet aspect of the program?
>
> Is there some other even simpler way to do a droplet app with Ruby?
Look for DropScript. You drag a script onto it and it turns it into a
droplet application.
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Joe Block <jpb@apesseekingknowledge.net>
Have GNU, will travel.