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

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007, Jordan Breeding wrote:

You might also check out rb-appscript, ported from python.

http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org/

While I do suggest you check this out, I want to point out that RubyOSA is actually being written by Apple, and is also insanely cool ;)

As to whether it's faster, I think it probably depends a lot on whether you've already got a Ruby interpreter up and running. If you're using RubyOSA to send events from an existing Ruby process, it's likely faster than shelling out to osascript.

That said, the difference is probably negligible. RubyOSA is a joy to use, but I have not tried rb-appscript so it may be as well :)

Ben