As part of my DARC strategy, I'm working on creating a Rails Adaptor for CoreData. The first step is simply getting CoreData to talk to Ruby. Fortunately, RubyCocoa 0.4.2 adds CoreData support, so this should be doable.I have created a file -- cdcli.rb -- which implements Apple's "Low-Level Core Data Tutorial" in Ruby, resulting in... Continue Reading →

Updated Oct 28: bug fixes, simpler implementation (compatible with 1.1)I've finally finished (I hope 🙂 a long-running project to use DarwinPorts itself to build the DarwinPorts installer. Yeah! The goal is to enable us to use all our existing tools to automate and collaborate on this process.I've uploaded an archive containing all the files: ?... Continue Reading →

To give equal time to my Python friends, here is the source code for a demo TurboGears web application that publishes a Mac OS X Address Book. In addition to TurboGears, this requires pre-installing PyObjc. There is also an Automator action demonstrating XOXO extraction, which requires Tiger. Click [Read More] for information about how it... Continue Reading →

So, after telling a few of my Python friends about DARC, they all told me I should check out TurboGears as an alternative to Ruby on Rails. I don't really care one way or the other -- the "R" in DARC could stand for "REST" as well as "Rails" -- but here's my take:"There's more... Continue Reading →

You've heard of LAMP?Meet its 21st-century cousin: DARC ? Darwin ? Apache ? Rails ? CoreDataThis is especially cool when combined with microformats. Click [Read more] for a very rough demo script. You can also download the DARCdemo source code. On Mac OS X 10.4:A. Setup 1. Install Xcode Developer Tools 2. Install Ruby on... Continue Reading →