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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">MacRuby</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Laurent Sansonetti (<a href="Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a>)</td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Final release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">0.12<sup id="cite_ref-lists.macosforge.org_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lists.macosforge.org-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
/ June 11, 2012<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2012-06-11</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby">github<wbr>.com<wbr>/MacRuby<wbr>/MacRuby</a></span> </li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>, <a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a>, <a href="Objective-C" title="Objective-C">Objective-C</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Mac_OS_X" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X">Mac OS X</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Ruby programming language interpreter and compiler</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Ruby_License" title="Ruby License">Ruby License</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.macruby.org/">www<wbr>.macruby<wbr>.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>MacRuby</b> is a discontinued implementation of the <a href="Ruby_(programming_language)" title="Ruby (programming language)">Ruby</a> language that ran on the <a href="Objective-C" title="Objective-C">Objective-C</a> runtime and <a href="CoreFoundation" class="mw-redirect" title="CoreFoundation">CoreFoundation</a> framework under development by <a href="Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a> which "was supposed to replace <a href="RubyCocoa" title="RubyCocoa">RubyCocoa</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It targeted Ruby 1.9 and used the high performance <a href="LLVM" title="LLVM">LLVM</a> compiler infrastructure starting with version 0.5. It supports both <a href="AOT_compiler" class="mw-redirect" title="AOT compiler">ahead-of-time</a> and <a href="Just-in-time_compilation" title="Just-in-time compilation">just-in-time</a> compilation.
</p><p>MacRuby supported <a href="Interface_Builder" title="Interface Builder">Interface Builder</a> and shipped with a core library called HotCocoa to simplify <a href="Cocoa_(API)" title="Cocoa (API)">Cocoa</a> programming. MacRuby was also used as an embedded scripting language for Objective-C applications.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In May 2012, Laurent Sansonetti announced <a href="RubyMotion" title="RubyMotion">RubyMotion</a>, a port of MacRuby for <a href="IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a>, <a href="OS_X" class="mw-redirect" title="OS X">OS X</a> and <a href="Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-rubymotion_about_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rubymotion_about-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Development on MacRuby effectively ended in late 2011, coinciding with the principal author's departure from <a href="Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a> As of Jan 5 2015, The MacRuby project is no longer under active development;<sup id="cite_ref-macruby_end-of-life_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macruby_end-of-life-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MacRuby does not work on Mavericks, the team having shifted their focus to a commercial RubyMotion product for iOS and OS X.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>MacRuby was originally called "ruby+objc"<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was developed by Laurent Sansonetti, who began work on it in late 2007. In March 2008, the first publicly available version, MacRuby 0.1, was announced on the official RubyTalk forum.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Version 0.2 was released in June 2008, and implemented Ruby strings, arrays and hashes as native Cocoa types.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2008, MacRuby 0.3 was released<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and included the HotCocoa library<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as several HotCocoa example programs.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2008, Apple created its first MacRuby page on its Developer Connection website.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>MacRuby 0.4 was released in March 2009, MacRuby 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 in January, May and October 2010 respectively. MacRuby 0.8, was released on December 13, 2010,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 0.9 on February 25, 2011 <sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 0.10 on March 23, 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 0.11 on October 17, 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 0.12 on June 11, 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-lists.macosforge.org_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lists.macosforge.org-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li>F-Script</li>
<li><a href="Nu_(programming_language)" title="Nu (programming language)">Nu</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.macruby.org">Official website</a></span></span></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/macruby.html">MacRuby download</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.apple.com/mac/articles/scriptingautomation/cocoaappswithmacruby.html">Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090308075620/http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/macruby-ruby-for-your-mac.html">MacRuby presentation during RubyConf 08 by Laurent Sansonetti (video)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090308124430/http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/os-x-application-development-with-hotcocoa.html">OS X Application Development with HotCocoa by Rich Kilmer (video)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.slideshare.net/mattetti/macruby-when-objectivec-and-ruby-meet">Introduction to MacRuby (slides)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendanlim/macruby-to-the-max-3530772">MacRuby to the Max presentation during RubyConf India 2010 by Brendan Lim (slides)</a></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://foolsworkshop.com/rubycocoa/category/macruby/">Fool's Ruby and Cocoa Workshop - MacRuby Archive</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081023152445/http://blog.springenwerk.com/2008/10/macruby-and-core-data-tutorial.html">MacRuby Core Data Tutorial</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100617035340/http://www.icoretech.org/2009/08/having-fun-with-macruby/">Using MacRuby with Snow Leopard</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Ruby_Document_format" title="Ruby Document format">Document format</a></li>
<li><i><a href="Why's_(poignant)_Guide_to_Ruby" title="Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby">why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby</a></i></li>
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