Ruby Matters

Months of work has just been released as MacRuby 0.3 which makes strides to greatly simplify Cocoa programming:

• MacRuby now ships with a core library called HotCocoa, something which greatly simplifies Cocoa programming while also using simple Ruby idioms.
• MacRuby is now using the Objective-C runtime to implement the Ruby class semantics and also to dispatch pure Ruby methods. This is an important change because it simplifies a lot the core implementation and also eliminates ambiguities between both worlds.
• Supports Interface Builder in this release. You can define classes, outlets and actions in a MacRuby Xcode project and they will automatically appear in Interface Builder.

InfoQ talks to Eoghan McCabe from Contrast (Exceptional) and Matt Jankowski from Hoptoad:

Exception monitoring is always critical to handle. Rails plugin ExceptionNotifier made this task easier by providing a mailer object and a default set of templates for sending email notifications when errors occur in a Rails application. Two companies (Exceptional and Hoptoad) help with this by providing a third party service which intercepts exceptions and displays them in a web interface. Notification by Mail or SMS is also an option.

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