Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] a few questions

[Jonathan P. <jp...@dc...>]

On 7 Apr 2006, at 6:00, Jordan Breeding wrote:

> i have a few questions regarding RubyCocoa and RubyAeosa:
>
> 1) is RubyAeosa no longer supported at all?  it hasn't been touched  
> in a long time and it doesn't seem to want to even configure itself  
> on 10.4.6.

I've been using it a fair amount on 10.4.5, but have yet to try it on  
10.4.6 (not upgraded yet).

I've also been looking at creating a gem version of aeosa, to make it  
easier to install.

Can you give specific error messages etc you're experiencing?

> 2) if RubyAeosa is no longer supported than is there a way to run  
> an AppleScript through RubyCocoa and take a returned list/array  
> from AppleScript and get the ruby types for everything?  i would  
> then also like to do some computations and run some command line  
> programs based on some of the contents of the list/array and extra  
> some file aliases from the array as well, which i would like to be  
> able to return directly to AppleScript/Automator from ruby.  is any  
> of this feasible/possible?  if i can at least get the AppleScript  
> working and the results into ruby types i can do without returning  
> things back to AppleScript/Automator, although that would make my  
> life slightly easier.

RubyAeosa is the way to go I think.

I have been developing a ruby project similar to python's appscript,  
which allows you to operate applescript-style things directly in  
ruby. Would you be interested in testing it?

e.g.,

finder = OSX::Application.new("Finder")
puts finder.selection[0].name
which would be similar to the AppleScript:

tell application "Finder"
   get name of first item of (selection as list)
end tell