Article:		Replacing AppleScript with Ruby
Subject:		Accessing the clipboard via rb-appscript
Date:		2007-03-01 17:49:48
From:		mattneub
Response to: Accessing the clipboard via rb-appscript
Frankly, not sure what app controls the clipboard See my book! "set the clipboard" is an osax command. The article tells you how to access osax commands. So e.g. osax.set_the_clipboard_to("howdy").

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• Accessing the clipboard via rb-appscript
  2007-03-01 23:33:05  bbebop [View]
  
  
  Thanks, Matt. That helped. Now I must have my copy of Frontier: The Definitive Guide around here somewhere. Never could get next to Applescript and miss Frontier. Maybe Ruby will be the charm??
• Accessing the clipboard via rb-appscript
  2007-03-02 16:11:05  Matt Neuburg | [View]
  
  
  Indeed. It was Frontier that taught me that there was a better way to construct and send Apple events. And Ruby does have some features that are pleasingly similar to Frontier's UserTalk, and rb-appscript is also quite reminiscent of the way UserTalk did Apple events.