Comments on: Ruby Appscript – Sweet automation http://www.hackerdude.com/2009/01/23/ruby-appscript-sweet-automation/ Software Development Blog by David Martinez Mon, 03 May 2010 16:54:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Hackerdude http://www.hackerdude.com/2009/01/23/ruby-appscript-sweet-automation/comment-page-1/#comment-98314 Hackerdude Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:00:30 +0000 http://www.hackerdude.com/2009/01/23/ruby-appscript-sweet-automation/#comment-98314 Fantastic. Worth a try. Thanks! Fantastic. Worth a try. Thanks!

]]> By: has http://www.hackerdude.com/2009/01/23/ruby-appscript-sweet-automation/comment-page-1/#comment-98313 has Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:04:22 +0000 http://www.hackerdude.com/2009/01/23/ruby-appscript-sweet-automation/#comment-98313 The weird and/or interesting thing about Apple event IPC is that it's based on RPC+queries rather than OOP, allowing your first two examples to be condensed down to this: <code> require 'appscript' app = Appscript.app("iCal") puts app.calendars.name.get puts app.calendars.todos.summary.get </code> Doesn't always work in practice (some apps are better at it than others), but pretty neat when it does. The weird and/or interesting thing about Apple event IPC is that it’s based on RPC+queries rather than OOP, allowing your first two examples to be condensed down to this:


require 'appscript'
app = Appscript.app("iCal")

puts app.calendars.name.get

puts app.calendars.todos.summary.get

Doesn’t always work in practice (some apps are better at it than others), but pretty neat when it does.

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