SketchUp-Ruby Resources

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Official Google Sketchup API Documentation

SketchUp API Blog
Google SketchUp API Home (Google Code)
Google SketchUp Developers Group (Google Groups)
Google SketchUp API Documentation (Reference)

Ruby Operator Precedence

The reserved words and, or and not have a lower precedence than &&, || and !. The tricky part is that their precedence is lower than the assignment operator = .

a = false or true evalualtes to ( a = false) or true.
You probably meant one of:
a = (false or true)
a = false || true

Avoid using the typename method

In this discussion, user AlexMozg presents evidence that avoiding the object.typename can give your script a considerable performance increase.

Instead, use object.is_a? Class::Type.

He also says in a model that is less than 10 MB, there may not be a substantial increase, but for very large models the speed increase is considerable.

Installing Extensions

How to find the Plugins folder?
Here's a method that tells you right where your version of SketchUp is looking for extensions. Copy and paste the code into the Window > Ruby Console dialog, and press ENTER. It works for all versions of SketchUp, and on all operating systems, too.


Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")

And in my case the location to install plugins is C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins

Links to important and notable Dev Forum posts past and present. Let me know if there is a topic that should be included here.

Building Ruby C Extensions compatible with SketchUp
Set.insert vs array << x unless array.include?(x)
How to enable thumbnail preview (windows)
Google SketchUp Ruby API - What's New in SketchUp 7.1
WebDialogs - The Lost Manual -- thomthom (Nov 2009)
Report Ruby Bugs and Documentation issues in this thread. The SketchUp developers are aware of, and read it.
[Code] Real UV from UVHelper data - thomthom (Oct 2009)
State of Observers — 19 July 2009
[Code] UnicodeEx - Sketchup + Character Encoding (thomthom)
[url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13666:3tvu9trw]SketchUp RUBY API Wishlist (way of coding wishes, please)[/url:3tvu9trw]
WebDialogs: [url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=22491:3tvu9trw]How to Hide the Scrollbars[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10142:3tvu9trw]SketchUp-Ruby Resources[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16909:3tvu9trw]Must Have Ruby Plugins - Visual Index[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16792:3tvu9trw]< SCF Toolbars Authors >[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16164:3tvu9trw]Collaborative Effort - Ruby Template, RDoc, and Localization[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=12423:3tvu9trw]Word of warning to developers[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/search.php?keywords=code&terms=all&author=&fid=180&sc=1&sf=titleonly&sr=topics&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search:3tvu9trw]Ruby Forum Code Search[/url:3tvu9trw]

SketchUp & Ruby Development Discussions

Rick's [url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=12423:3tvu9trw]Words of Warning[/url:3tvu9trw] - Important points to remember for writing plugins.
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=8997&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a:3tvu9trw]How do you make plug-ins for sketchup[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=6818:3tvu9trw]What is needed to script?[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=4796:3tvu9trw]ruby dev environment[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11160:3tvu9trw]Creating an API[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=12633:3tvu9trw]$ versus @[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=14608:3tvu9trw]Manipulating the InputPoint[/url:3tvu9trw]

Ruby Editor Suggestions

[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13206:3tvu9trw]ConTEXT[/url:3tvu9trw] Editor w/Ruby Highlighting
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=169&t=6903:3tvu9trw]Notepad++[/url:3tvu9trw] editor
Notepad++ AutoComplete files
- by [url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=15875&p=123500:3tvu9trw]Didier Bur[/url:3tvu9trw]
- by [url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=4796&p=25556#p111076:3tvu9trw]radhikari[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13574&p=101153#p101153:3tvu9trw]EditPlus[/url:3tvu9trw] editor
RDE

Ruby Challenges

[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=2107:3tvu9trw]UI.play_sound jukebox[/url:3tvu9trw] (RickW)
[url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13715:3tvu9trw]best fitting bounding box[/url:3tvu9trw] (Matt)

Ruby Docs

[url=http://ruby-doc.org/:3tvu9trw]Ruby-doc.org[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html:3tvu9trw]Arrays[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html:3tvu9trw]Strings[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Hash.html:3tvu9trw]Hashes[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Enumerable.html:3tvu9trw]Enumerable (module)[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html:3tvu9trw]IO[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html:3tvu9trw]Time[/url:3tvu9trw]

Ruby Books

[url=http://www.autosketchup.com/:3tvu9trw]Automatic Sketchup[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://rubybestpractices.com/:3tvu9trw]Ruby Best Practices[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Book-Of-Ruby:3tvu9trw]The Book of Ruby[/url:3tvu9trw]

Extension Collections

[url=http://www.smustard.com/:3tvu9trw]Smustard(TM) - the Companion to Sketchup(TM)[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/RUBY_Library_Depot.htm:3tvu9trw]Ruby Library Depot[/url:3tvu9trw] Here are the contributions of the Ruby developers of the SketchUp community since 2004.
[url=http://www.pixero.com/:3tvu9trw]Jan Sandström[/url:3tvu9trw] (Pixero)
[url=http://www.tensile-structures.de/index.html:3tvu9trw]Soap Skin & Bubble[/url:3tvu9trw]
[url=http://errorinitus.de:3tvu9trw]Mario Pehle[/url:3tvu9trw] (azuby) under Software
[url=http://www.accustudio.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=88&func=select&id=23:3tvu9trw]Accustudio File Repository[/url:3tvu9trw] - appears to mirror the Ruby Library Depot.
[url=http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/:3tvu9trw]SketchUp Plugins Blog[/url:3tvu9trw]

Resources

[url=http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=26352:3tvu9trw]Ruby Scrambler Download[/url:3tvu9trw]

Heven7_floor

Great Jim

Your suggestion is usefully to every newer like me .

Thanks

watkins

Dear Jim,

Many thanks for all your hard work. It is greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Bob

sepo

Just found this depository of Plugins for SU. There a lot of known ones but nevertheless mayby useful.
http://www.accustudio.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=88&func=select&id=23

Oaht

Thanks for your effort. Cheers

vashstamp3de

I hope this helps...(and not violating someone )

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/kites/programmi/grafica/sketcplugins.html

Good Luck!

remus

I imagine a link to contact each plugins developer would be appreciated by the authors

Pauline01

thx again it's very very nice!

Align

thanx for this awesome thread! i give it a 10

thomthom

Jim, maybe include the path to install plugins on Mac as well. That one seem to be the most confusing amongst users it seems.

RickW

@vashstamp3de said:

I hope this helps...(and not violating someone )
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/kites/programmi/grafica/sketcplugins.html
Good Luck!

Just point the Windowizer link to Smustard, please. It currently points to a broken link on RLD.

thomthom

Might be worth noting that definition names can't be trusted to be unique: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28094

thomthom

Very nice list Dan!

@dan rathbun said:

Ruby Best Practices, by Gregory T. Brown
** PDF
http://sandal.github.com/rbp-book/pdfs/rbp_1-0.pdf

This one looks very interesting.

Dan Rathbun

@thomthom said:

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.

@thomthom said: