MacRuby is a discontinued implementation of the
Ruby
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language that ran on the
Objective-C
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runtime and
CoreFoundation framework under development by
Apple Inc.
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which "was supposed to replace
RubyCocoa". It targeted Ruby 1.9 and used the high performance
LLVM
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compiler infrastructure starting with version 0.5. It supports both
ahead-of-time and
just-in-time compilation.
MacRuby supported
Interface Builder
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and shipped with a core library called
HotCocoa to simplify
Cocoa programming. MacRuby was also used as an embedded scripting language for Objective-C applications.
In May 2012, Laurent Sansonetti announced
RubyMotion
RubyMotion is an IDE of the Ruby programming language that runs on iOS, OS X and Android. RubyMotion is a commercial product created by Laurent Sansonetti for HipByte , a port of MacRuby for
iOS
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,
OS X and
Android.
[RubyMotion - About](_blank)
RubyMotion.com. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
Development on MacRuby effectively ended in late 2011, coinciding with the principal author's departure from
Apple Inc.
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As of Jan 5 2015, The MacRuby project is no longer under active development;
[Readme.rdoc](_blank)
Github.com. Retrieved February 12, 2015. MacRuby does not work on Mavericks, the team having shifted their focus to a commercial RubyMotion product for iOS and OS X.
History
MacRuby was originally called "ruby+objc" and was developed by Laurent Sansonetti, who began work on it in late 2007. In March 2008, the first publicly available version, MacRuby 0.1, was announced on the official RubyTalk forum. Version 0.2 was released in June 2008, and implemented Ruby strings, arrays and hashes as native Cocoa types. In September 2008, MacRuby 0.3 was released and included the HotCocoa library as well as several HotCocoa example programs. In October 2008, Apple created its first MacRuby page on its Developer Connection website.
MacRuby 0.4 was released in March 2009, MacRuby 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 in January, May and October 2010 respectively. MacRuby 0.8, was released on December 13, 2010, 0.9 on February 25, 2011 0.10 on March 23, 2011, 0.11 on October 17, 2011,
[http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2011-October/008168.html brace yourselves, 0.11 is coming!] 0.12 on June 11, 2012.
See also
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F-Script
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Nu
References
External links
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MacRuby download*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20090308124430/http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/os-x-application-development-with-hotcocoa.html OS X Application Development with HotCocoa by Rich Kilmer (video)Introduction to MacRuby (slides)MacRuby to the Max presentation during RubyConf India 2010 by Brendan Lim (slides)MacRuby: The Definitive GuideMacRuby's Twitter accountFool's Ruby and Cocoa Workshop - MacRuby ArchiveUsing MacRuby with Snow Leopard
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Object-oriented programming languages
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