SketchUp-Ruby Resources

[Dan Rathbun]

Very nice list Dan!

Thanks.. (but I didn't find all these myself.) I had it posted over at GG, but it kept getting farther down the topic stack. Over here I know right where it is, and can format it.

This one looks very interesting.

Jim found that one.

P.S. - @Jim your free to cut and paste anything from here to the top of the thread.

[Dan Rathbun]

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Ruby Interpreter DLLs (Win32)

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Instructions: (Win32 ONLY)

Navigate (Explore) on your computer, to the Google Sketchup application folder, and ...

1. Backup the current "Deceased" 1.8.0 dll, msvcrt-ruby18.dll by renaming it:
   • msvcrt-ruby180_p0.dll
   • or similar if it's a newer version. For example, if the old dll is v1.8.6-p287, then rename it msvcrt-ruby186_p287.dll
2. Download your choice of a newer version Ruby Interpreter Win32 DLL (below)
   
   
3. Make a copy of the new file and name it: msvcrt-ruby18.dll
   (Sketchup is hardcoded to load this DLL filename.)

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1.8.0

OBSOLETE

ruby-1.8.0-p0-i386-mswin32-dll.zip

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1.8.1 .. 1.8.4

OBSOLETE

1.8.1 thru 1.8.4 are obsolete (no sense posting them.)

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1.8.5

OBSOLETE

ruby-1.8.5-p0-i386-mswin32-dll.zip

ruby-1.8.5-p231-i386-mswin32-dll.zip

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1.8.6

STABLE (but aging.)

ruby-1.8.6-p287-i386-mswin32-dll.zip

ruby-1.8.6-p369-i386-mswin32-dll.zip

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1.8.7

STABLE (current)

ruby-1.8.7-p299-i386-mswin32-dll.zip

ruby-1.8.7-p302-i386-mswin32-dll.zip

ruby-1.8.7-p330-i386-mswin32-dll.zip

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[Dan Rathbun]

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UPDATES / ADDITIONS (in this topic.)

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Ruby Interpreter DLLs (Win32)

Edited Instructions to be more clear and precise.

Added DLL for:

• latest Ruby v 1.8.7 p330

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RUBY PROGRAMMING REFERENCES - CHM format

Added CHMs for:

• latest Ruby v 1.8.7 p330
• latest Ruby v 1.9.2 p136

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[Dan Rathbun]

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Ruby Newbie's Guide to Getting Started

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Go to this post... Ruby Resources

(1) make a checklist of all the Tutorials, and go thru them 1 by 1, and check them off the list as you do.

(2) make a checklist of all the free downloadable books, and down load them one by one. Put them in a folder on your Desktop (or whereever you can find them easily.) And read them.

(3) For Standard ruby Reference, get the CHM for Ruby 1.8.6 here, put it in this same folder.

Get comfortable with Standard Ruby. When your ready to script for Sketchup:

(4) On the Reference list (link above,) go to the Sketchup Specific section, and download Alex's Cheatsheet, and bookmark the Google Sketchup API document website. (You'll be referencing it a lot.) It has the methods for the modules and classes for 'talking' to Sketchup, and manipulating it's models.

(5) Go through all the available Sketchup Ruby tutorials (on the list.)

(6) Read the code examples in your plugins/Examples folder.

(7) Have fun. Start fooling around with Ruby under Sketchup. Usually the best thing is to start by customizing the examples.

(8) Whenever you have questions, come back to this forum, and first do a search (it's likely your question has already been asked.) If not.. start a new topic (make the the topic title simple but informative... a shortened version of your question. Don't make it "Help Me!", that does not work well.)

(9) Before going into advanced Sketchup scripting, download more advanced plugins from the plugins forum (or other websites.. see the Resource list,) and examine them. See how they did things. This the best way to learn how to do things right. If you have a question about why an author did something a certain way... you can either Private Message them, or see if there is a discussion topic specific to their plugin, here in the Developer's forum, and post a question at the end of that topic. If no topic exists, create one by putting the plugin name in square brackets following by 'coding questions.' Please don't ask coding questions in the Plugin distribution topic of the Plugins forum. Ask them here in the Developers forum.

And ... welcome to the world of Ruby !

[Jim]

This site has many videos of Ruby talks recorded at various Ruby Conferences - http://confreaks.net

Some good stuff there - if you can find them...

[rricon]

Hello,

Where to find the .h file of msvcrt-ruby18.dll file ?

Regards,

[Dan Rathbun]

Where to find the .h file of msvcrt-ruby18.dll file ?

In the source:
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p287.zip

[Dan Rathbun]

book: "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide"
Copyright © 2000 Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.

ProgrammingRuby.zip

Released under the terms of the Open Publication License V1.0.

[Todd Burch]

Chunky Bacon. I didn't see a link for Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby. A true classic.

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-gui ... ter-1.html

[Dan Rathbun]

The Bastards Book of Ruby
A Programming Primer for Counting and Other Unconventional Tasks

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Regular Expressions

Cheatsheet

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

[mptak]

http://rubyjs.org/

Javascript implementation of Ruby. For what its worth.