SketchUp-Ruby Resources

[Jim]

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.

Code: Select all

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.

• 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)
  
  
• SketchUp RUBY API Wishlist (way of coding wishes, please)
  
  
• WebDialogs: How to Hide the Scrollbars
  
  
• SketchUp-Ruby Resources
  
  
• Must Have Ruby Plugins - Visual Index
  
  
• < SCF Toolbars Authors >
  
  
• Collaborative Effort - Ruby Template, RDoc, and Localization
  
  
• Word of warning to developers
  
  
• Ruby Forum Code Search

SketchUp & Ruby Development Discussions

• Rick's Words of Warning - Important points to remember for writing plugins.
  
• How do you make plug-ins for sketchup
  
• What is needed to script?
  
• ruby dev environment
  
• Creating an API
  
• $ versus @
  
• Manipulating the InputPoint

Ruby Editor Suggestions

• ConTEXT Editor w/Ruby Highlighting
  
• Notepad++ editor
  
• Notepad++ AutoComplete files
  
  • by Didier Bur
    
  • by radhikari
    
• EditPlus editor
  
• RDE

Ruby Challenges

1. UI.play_sound jukebox (RickW)
2. best fitting bounding box (Matt)

Ruby Docs

• Ruby-doc.org
  
  • Arrays
    
  • Strings
    
  • Hashes
    
  • Enumerable (module)
    
  • IO
    
  • Time

Ruby Books

• Automatic Sketchup
• Ruby Best Practices
• The Book of Ruby

Extension Collections

• Smustard(TM) - the Companion to Sketchup(TM)
• Ruby Library Depot Here are the contributions of the Ruby developers of the SketchUp community since 2004.
• Jan Sandström (Pixero)
• Soap Skin & Bubble
• Mario Pehle (azuby) under Software
• Accustudio File Repository - appears to mirror the Ruby Library Depot.
• SketchUp Plugins Blog

Resources

• Ruby Scrambler Download

[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?opt ... lect&id=23

[OAHT]

Thanks for your effort. Cheers

[vashstamp3de]

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


http://xoomer.virgilio.it/kites/program ... ugins.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]

I hope this helps...(and not violating someone )
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/kites/program ... ugins.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: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28094

[Dan Rathbun]

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