Re: Ruby and AppleScript
Re: Ruby and AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Ruby and AppleScript
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:19:43 +0000
On 26 Mar 2008, at 15:32, Paul Scott wrote:
With this and other non-AppleScript solutions you still have to fire
up Script Editor to open the appropriate dictionary so you've got
some clue as to what you can do with an application. Perhaps if
there were a separate "Script Dictionary" application it wouldn't
feel so clumsy.
John discusses this in his rb-appscript posts. ASDictionary can export
AppleScript and appscript dictionaries in HTML format, and appscript
has some cool tricks up its sleeve as well.
I'm wondering, also, is it possible to have create a droplet with an
"on run" handler using ruby?
There are a few options available, depending on your requirements:
- Platypus <http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus> will package Python,
Ruby, shell, etc. scripts as executables.
- RubyScript2Exe <http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/> builds
standalone executables, although I've not tried it myself.
- RubyCocoa is bundled with Leopard and great for writing full-fledged
Cocoa apps in Ruby, though is probably overkill for what you want.
- Philip Aker provides basic OSA components for Python, Ruby, etc.,
allowing you to write scripts in Script Editor and save them as
applets/droplets.
HTH
has
p.s. I've also got plans to write a full-featured OSA component that
will support several languages including Ruby, but no ETA yet unless
someone wants to sponsor it as it's several weeks' work and I'm
already busy with other stuff.
--
Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net
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