tijs.org

I guess RubyOSA sort of like what we should be able to do in Leopard when it ships, only available right now. If RubyCocoa is a bit much for your tastes this gives you a nice interface to some workflow enhancing programming.

Leopard Preview reportedly ships with Apache 2.0, Ruby on Rails and Subversion. It also adds support for script-to-framework programming, allowing Python and Ruby scripting to access Mac OS X specific programming interfaces.

More features of Apple’s Leopard leaked on Web

try ruby! (in your browser) (via: James)

Oi! that’s handy: Walking Slide Numbers

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby:

I’ll be straight with you. I want you to cry. To weep. To whimper sweetly. This book is a poignant guide to Ruby. That means code so beautiful that tears are shed. That means gallant tales and somber truths that have you waking up the next morning in the arms of this book. Hugging it tightly to you all the day long. If necessary, fashion a makeshift hip holster for Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, so you can always have this book’s tender companionship.

Cool, this is the first ‘learning to program’ course i have seen that uses Ruby as the programming language: Learn to Program, by Chris Pine. Since Ruby is a real OO language unlike some others and uses some natural language construct niceties like Smalltalk it could be a great fit for IT classes. Although i haven’t had a chance to really dive into Ruby yet myself, I did get the PickAxe!