active_mac

DESCRIPTION:

Provides an ORM interface to the data of any AppleScript-enabled application. Useful for querying and scripting any Mac application in an intuitive way - you can pretend your iTunes library is a relational database, for instance.

INSTALL:

sudo gem install active_mac --source "http://gemcutter.org"

USE:

require 'active_mac'
app("iTunes").selection.each { |track| track.name = track.name.titleize }
app("iTunes").play

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Mac OS X

  • rb-appscript

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyleft 2009 Robert Cezar Matei

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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