RubyCocoa Resources: Call for Volunteers

November 17, 2007 — rubycocoa

Posted today to the rubycocoa-talk mailing list:

With all of the work that has gone into RubyCocoa for Leopard, the

articles that I wrote for my http://rubycocoa.comRubyCocoa Resources site need an update.

But lately I’ve had my hands full with a different project, the new

language that I called http://programming.nuNu. Nu a Lisp-like language that I wrote in Objective-C to specifically get around the impedance mismatches between Ruby (or Python) and Objective-C. You can read more about those mismatches http://programming.nu/rubycocoa-and-rubyobjchere, but I think regular readers of this list are very aware of them.

For my purposes, Nu has been working out wonderfully, and not only do I no longer consider serious use of RubyCocoa, I’ve also found that I can use Nu for everything that I previously did with Ruby (Nu is Apple-only, but right now, so am I).

So with that, it’s time to decide what to do with http://rubycocoa.comRubyCocoa Resources. I’ve heard that Apple had lots of RubyCocoa documentation in the works for Leopard. If that’s enough, then I could just shut down my site and point the domain to http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.nethttp://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net. Otherwise, I think it needs a new maintainer. Any volunteers?

Tim

p.s. for questions and discussions about Nu, please see our Google group, http://groups.google.com/group/programming-nuprogramming-nu.

One comment ↓

#1 Tim on December 15, 2007 at 10:25 GMT

Following up:

Please welcome Michael Black as the new maintainer of RubyCocoa Resources, the site that I built to help me learn and document RubyCocoa. Michael is a developer based in Melbourne who has worked with Ruby and Cocoa separately, and like me when I created the site, Michael wants to know more about how to use them together.

Michael has offered to update the existing articles to account for the RubyCocoa improvements in Leopard and to add some new articles. He’s also graciously taken over hosting and care of the hieraki-based web app that runs the site.

So, many thanks to Michael and to everyone who’s been involved with RubyCocoa. Building RubyCocoa Resources was been a great learning experience for me and took me much further with Objective-C than I ever expected.

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