RubyCocoa is a framework for macOS that allows Cocoa programming in the object-oriented scripting language Ruby.
RubyCocoa lets you write a Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows you to create and use a Cocoa object in a Ruby script. It's possible to write a Cocoa application that mixes Ruby and Objective-C code.
Some useful applications of RubyCocoa:
- Exploration of a Cocoa object's features with
irb
interactively - Prototyping of a Cocoa application
- Writing a Cocoa application that combines good features of Ruby and Objective-C
- Wrapping macOS's native GUI for a Ruby script
GNU Lesser General Public License version 2. LGPL or the Ruby License
- Ruby 1.8.7, 2.0 or later
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later
- libxml2
- libffi