Mike Laurence's Internet Playground

You won’t regret it. Really. MacRuby is like filet mignon, while RubyCocoa is just a sad, undercooked rumproast. Did I just paraphrase a joke from American Pie 2? You better believe it, buster.

Anyway, if you have a RubyCocoa project that needs a little bit of shininess, it may be surprisingly easy (and satisfying) to quickly port it over to MacRuby. I just spent about 4 hours converting a fairly sophisticated app (aside from its MIDI interface, which is a bit more tricky, but you probably won’t be dealing with that).

My first stop was this post, a very nice summary of the basic steps that need to be taken. However, I encountered quite a few additional snags, and I thought I’d post them just in case you, random internet denizen, want to skip them all together. Most of them are covered in the MacRuby docs, of course, but they’re here in a nice digestible table format so you can more easily knock out your conversion. Because as fun as prettying up your code is, you’d still rather be adding functionality, right?

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