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      Jim
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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")
      
      

      http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/download/file.php?id=22479

      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

      1. [url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=2107:3tvu9trw]UI.play_sound jukebox[/url:3tvu9trw] (RickW)
      2. [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]

      Hi

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        Heven7_floor
        last edited by

        Great Jim

        Your suggestion is usefully to every newer like me .

        Thanks 🎉

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          watkins
          last edited by

          Dear Jim,

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

          Kind regards,
          Bob

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            sepo
            last edited by

            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

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              Oaht
              last edited by

              Thanks for your effort. Cheers 👍

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                vashstamp3de
                last edited by

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

                410 Gone

                favicon

                (xoomer.virgilio.it)

                Good Luck!

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                  remus
                  last edited by

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

                  http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                    Pauline01
                    last edited by

                    thx again it's very very nice!

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                      Align
                      last edited by

                      thanx for this awesome thread! i give it a 10

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                        thomthom
                        last edited by

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

                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                          RickW
                          last edited by

                          @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.

                          RickW
                          [www.smustard.com](http://www.smustard.com)

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                            thomthom
                            last edited by

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

                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              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.

                              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                Dan Rathbun
                                last edited by

                                @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:

                                This one looks very interesting.

                                Jim found that one.

                                P.S. - @Jim your free to cut and paste anything from here to the top of the thread.

                                I'm not here much anymore.

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                                • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                  Dan Rathbun
                                  last edited by


                                  UPDATES / ADDITIONS (in this topic.)


                                  Ruby Interpreter DLLs (Win32)

                                  Edited Instructions to be more clear and precise.

                                  Added DLL for:

                                  • latest Ruby v 1.8.7 p330

                                  RUBY PROGRAMMING REFERENCES - CHM format

                                  Added CHMs for:

                                  • latest Ruby v 1.8.7 p330* latest Ruby v 1.9.2 p136

                                  I'm not here much anymore.

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                                    Jim
                                    last edited by

                                    This site has many videos of Ruby talks recorded at various Ruby Conferences - http://confreaks.net

                                    Some good stuff there - if you can find them...

                                    Hi

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                                      rricon
                                      last edited by

                                      Hello,

                                      Where to find the .h file of msvcrt-ruby18.dll file ?

                                      Regards,

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                                      • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                        Dan Rathbun
                                        last edited by

                                        @rricon said:

                                        Where to find the .h file of msvcrt-ruby18.dll file ?

                                        In the source:
                                        ftp;//ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p287.zip

                                        I'm not here much anymore.

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                                        • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                          Dan Rathbun
                                          last edited by

                                          book: "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide"
                                          Copyright © 2000 Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.

                                          ProgrammingRuby.zip
                                          Released under the terms of the Open Publication License V1.0.

                                          🤓

                                          I'm not here much anymore.

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                                            todd burch
                                            last edited by

                                            Chunky Bacon. I didn't see a link for Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby. A true classic.

                                            http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.html

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