Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Objective-C Ubiquity?

[Sam R. <sro...@un...>]

Quoting gr...@gr..., on Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:26:20PM -0700:
> There are a lot of strange little details that I have to weedwack when 
> connecting things up. The RubyCocoa documentation is extremely terse, 
> so I have to
> 	figure out what Cocoa is capable of
> 	figure out which pieces of Cocoa do that
> 	figure out how they connect
> 	figure out which parts I need to be able to 'touch'
> 	figure out how to connect those parts to Ruby

I don't think you can use ruby cocoa without having a basic
understanding of cocoa coding with obj-c. Once you have that
understanding, I think you could play around in ruby and figure lots of
stuff out really quickly, more quickly than coding in obj-c, but
not until you have the basics.

My attempts to use ruby-cocoa stalled hard before I got as far as you.
Learning basic cocoa in obj-c is now on my todo list, and saving all the
messages on this mailling list for future reference!

The ruby-cocoa developers can't document cocoa, its too huge, and there
are lots of great cocoa books around. And the situation is no different
than the Ruby TK or Ruby-Gnome bindings, for example, check out:

  www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_tk.html
  ruby-gnome.sourceforge.net

They all say the same thing, "we document the ruby bindings, but go to
the sources to learn more about tk/gtk coding".

Cheers,
Sam