Today I've been taking a quick spin with MacRuby, which is a port of Ruby to Objective-C with the Cocoa frameworks. Not being a Mac programmer (which is shameful considering that I've been coding on a Mac for about five years now) I blagged some example Cocoa code written in Objective-C and nu from the Hackety Hack blog and came up with this little dittie:

	framework 'Cocoa'

	NSApplication.sharedApplication

	class Window
		attr_accessor   :frame, :text_frame, :window, :text_field

		def initialize
			@frame = NSRect.new(NSPoint.new(0, 0), NSSize.new(450, 140))
			@window = NSWindow.alloc.initWithContentRect @frame,
						styleMask:(NSTitledWindowMask + NSClosableWindowMask + NSMiniaturizableWindowMask),
						backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered,
						defer:false

			@text_frame = NSRect.new(NSPoint.new(40, 90), NSSize.new(400, 18))
			@text_field = NSTextField.alloc.initWithFrame @text_frame
			@text_field.setBezeled false
			@text_field.setStringValue "Yay for MacRuby!!!"
			@text_field.setBackgroundColor NSColor.windowBackgroundColor
			@text_field.setEditable false
			@text_field.setSelectable false

			@window.contentView.addSubview @text_field
			@window.center
			@window.setLevel NSFloatingWindowLevel
			@window.makeKeyAndOrderFront nil
		end

		def setDelegate delegate
			@window.setDelegate delegate
		end
	end

	class WindowDelegate < Object
		def app
			NSApplication.sharedApplication
		end
		def windowWillClose id
			app.terminate 0
		end
	end

	window = Window.new
	window.setDelegate WindowDelegate.alloc.init

This looks simple enough that I'll have to make time to play further - perhaps during my pre-RailsConf coding bash in August.

the music in my head: Nonstop To Nowhere-Faster Pussycat-Whipped!