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Last year was an exciting thrill for the techies and developers alike, when Mac OS X (Leopard) was released. And with full support for Ruby and Rails included in the OS package. It seems that the Ruby on Rails train is still rolling with Apple. Some of highlights of Apple, using Ruby in its package, that you might have missed out includes:

• The iPhone Configuration Web Utility – A tool written with Ruby on Rails allowing its user to manage iPhones.
• The SproutCore JavaScript framework – Which is designed for making desktop-like applications on the web and is used in Apple’s new MobileMe applications. Fyi: SproutCore is not a Ruby project, but it does offer some good tie-ins to the system.
• The MacRuby project – Apple’s own port of Ruby to the Objective-C runtimes – which should make it much easier to integrate with Cocoa for Desktop development.
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