Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Know Ruby but not Cocoa; how to get started?

[grimmwerks <gr...@gr...>]

There's also a book that deals with the Quartz layer, mostly  
controlled by python; I'm sure you could use some of those exercises  
and flip them to ruby...?


On Dec 1, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Robert Feldt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> RubyCocoa looks very nice; good work!
>
> I know Ruby very well but have never really programmed any larger  
> apps on the Mac platform. I don't know the Cocoa API at all.
>
> Can anyone recommend a few good resources/book to get started with?
>
> I also have a more specific question: I want to be able to program  
> apps with UI:s rendered in OpenGL (to experiment with zoomable GUI  
> as one example). Would it be wise to go via Cocoa, open a OpenGL  
> canvas and then call to that? Have anyone tried other approaches to  
> OpenGL-programming with Ruby on Mac? I tried the different SDL and  
> OpenGL libs available for Ruby but no one is really easy to install  
> and/or use. Any tips appreciated.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>
> /Robert Feldt
>
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