The experience of scripting: a movie
I’ve made a video showing something of what it feels like to script a Mac application using Ruby. It also explains the basics of rb-appscript, one of the two main Ruby frameworks.
I made it after a burst of frustration with how often my scripting runs into wholly unnecessary snags. What I wish I knew is how many people who would love to script iTunes or Mail or whatever won’t because app developers make it too hard.
Perhaps I’ve stumbled into more snags than a normal human would (being a tester curses you that way). Or perhaps I overreact. Both seem to happen a lot. If you have experience with AppleScript or Ruby scripting, and you think so, let me know in comments or mail.
The video is 13 minutes long.
February 5th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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