MacRuby · the Definitive Guide by Aimonetti, Matt -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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MacRuby: The Definitive Guide

Preface

The Purpose of This Book Prerequisites Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

I. MacRuby Overview

1. Introduction

Introducing MacRuby

Why MacRuby?

Installation

Mac OS X Xcode MacRuby

Code Example Loading a Framework Using Classes

Defining a Class and Its Methods Ruby Class Instantiation

Methods

Documentation

Method prototypes Constant names

The Interactive Ruby Shell Syntactic Sugar

2. Fundamentals

Run Loops Callbacks/Delegation User Inputs Outlets Display Example

3. The Cocoa Environment

History Main Frameworks in the Cocoa API

Foundation Framework AppKit Framework CoreData Framework

Reference Library

Central Panel Sidebar

Mutability

4. Foundation

Compatibility Table Strings and Attributed Strings Arrays Hashes/Dictionaries Sets Enumerators Date, Time, and Calendars

NSDate NSCalendar

Data Locales Time Zones Exceptions I/O URLs/Requests/Connections

Cache Policy and Cache Access Asynchronous Versus Synchronous

Pipes File Handles Bundles Scheduling

Run Loops Timers Tasks/Subprocesses Threads Operations/Operation Queues

Notifications

Notification Centers Notification Queues

Archiving and Serialization Miscellaneous Classes

XML Parsing Filtering/Logical Conditions Undo/Redo User’s Preferences

5. Application Kit

Cocoa Key Principles

Model-View-Controller Design Pattern Protocols Key-Value Coding Bindings Delegation

User Interface

Windows, Views, and Cells

Windows and panels Views Cells

Positioning Events and the Responder Chain Drawing Graphics Context Images

6. Xcode

Xcode IDE

Template Navigator Area Editor Area Debug Area Utility Area

7. Core Data

Data Model

The Data Model and the Entity Adding Attributes Relationships Setting Up Controllers

User Interface

Movies Art Cover Actors Search

Persistence

Managed Object Model Managed Object Context Persistent Store Coordinator Workflow

8. One Step Deeper

Selectors Blocks Concurrency

Grand Central Dispatch

Queues Groups GCD dispatch gem

Sandboxing Using Objective-C or C Code Scriptable Applications Method Missing Pointers

Void Pointers Unsigned Pointer

Compilation Compilation Within Xcode

II. MacRuby in Practice

9. Address Book Example

User Interface Address Book Web API Call Cleaning Up: Better Management of Widgets The Extra Mile: Displaying More Information Through Notifications

10. Geolocation

User Interface Table View Core Location Web API

11. MacRuby in Objective-C Projects

API Usage Example in an Xcode Project

User Interface Using the MacRuby Method

12. Objective-C Code in MacRuby Apps

Dynamic Library Framework

BridgeSupport

13. Using Ruby Third-Party Libraries

RubyGems MacRuby Deploy

Index About the Author Colophon

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