MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks. It is the goal of MacRuby to enable the creation of full-fledged Mac OS X applications which do not sacrifice performance in order to enjoy the benefits of using Ruby. Read more...
MacRuby 0.6
2010-04-30 »
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MacRuby 0.6. In the 3 months since the previous release, a number of new features have been added and the overall stability of MacRuby has been substantially improved. Read more…
MacRuby 0.5
2010-01-31 »
We are pleased to announce the final release of MacRuby 0.5. After months of hard work and two successful beta releases, we believe 0.5 is good enough to replace the previous stable release, 0.4. Read more…
The Definitive Guide
Matt Aimonetti is currently working on a MacRuby book for O'Reilly. It is under development and the book is being published as it is being written. The work is released under a Creative Commons license, with the idea of getting early feedback from the community.
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Why MacRuby?
MacRuby began as an attempt to work around many problems inherent in RubyCocoa. In the course of solving these problems, MacRuby has also solved numerous problems in the original implementation of Ruby. Consequently, there are a number of reasons (e.g. convenience, efficiency, flexibility, performance) why one might wish to use MacRuby for new (and ongoing) Ruby applications... Read more...
