[Vpim-talk] Re: osx wrappers in vpim example

[Sam Roberts]

Quoteing tim at aerodynamite.net, on Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:24:25AM +0000:
> 
> >What are you trying to do?
> 
> Just access the OSX address book from Ruby.
> 
> >You should be aware that you need ruby-cocoa in order to use it 
> >(that's what is "wrapped").
> 
> That's what I didn't realize, thanks! Do you know if the ruby-cocoa 
> project is still active?

I don't know about "active". But its there, seems to work. You need
to know about obj-c to use the ruby bindings.

If you want to access AB from the cmd line, install lbdb (little brother
DB), it has a cmd-line tool to query the AB, I use it from inside
mutt now (its way faster than ruby).

Cheers,
Sam