[TxMt] Re: RubyOSA – a Ruby/AppleEvent Bridge

[Jacob Rus]

Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
> has someone experiences with RubyOSA – a Ruby/AppleEvent Bridge (esp. 
> whether it is faster than osascript running in BASH)?

Hmm, well it probably depends on what you're doing.  Both of them 
probably have to look up an application's dictionary when they run, 
because they work based on keywords rather than on the actual apple 
event codes (though it's possible RubyOSA caches the translation 
somewhere.  I have no idea).  But for doing string transformations, 
numerical stuff, or anything more complicated, RubyOSA should be much 
faster than applescript, which is dog slow when it has to be compiled as 
part of the run process, as it is with osascript via bash.  But if you 
compile an applescript first, and then run it via osascript, you might 
end up faster than RubyOSA, because at that point, it doesn't have to do 
any lookups at all, and can just send Apple Event codes straight to the 
target app.

In other words, try all 3 ways, and test the speed. :)

-Jacob