John Joyce
5/24/2008 12:48:00 PM
In addition, before going terribly far with OS X scripting outside of
AppleScript itself, you'll do well to learn some AppleScript first to
understand how it works (and how it doesn't).
Matt Neuberg's book on AppleScript will teach you a lot of what it
can and cannot do and the how and why.
Other books may be gentler introductions/tutorials and will be
useful, but Matt's explanations of the frustrations and workflow will
be very reassuring.
That said, you might be surprised how much you can pass to apps via
the command line as well...
(there's more than one way to do it in many cases)
rb-appscript will make it more convenient to pass data to/from Ruby.