Description:

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Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

MacRuby is Apple's open source implementation of the Ruby language in the Objective-C runtime. It allows developers to write native application in Ruby instead of Objective-C while still having access full access to all the APIs and features provided by Objective-C and Cocoa. Matt will explain what makes MacRuby interesting and will show you how to get started with a simple application.

About Matt Aimonetti

Matt Aimonetti, based in San Diego, California, is a senior research and development engineer at LivingSocial. Prior to joining LivingSocial, Matt worked on video game development at Sony PlayStation; and before that he worked with startups, Fortune 100 companies, and traditional companies. There, he had the opportunity to be involved with captivating projects in different domain spaces from biotech to comics, advertising, social networks, e-learning, and more. Matt joined the MacRuby team in 2008 and was active in the Ruby community for many years prior to that. He developed or contributed to a lot of OSS libraries and frameworks (Merb, Rails, and many more) and spoke at user groups and conferences in the United States and abroad. Matt blogs at https://merbist.com.