moaa / Hacker-Bar

RubyMotion Mac application for displaying recent HackerNews posts in your status bar.

Hacker Bar

A RubyMotion Mac application.

This is a system bar application that fetches the top items from HackerNews every 5 minutes. Clicking on the link will take you to the linked URL.

The application will remember which links you've clicked before and indicate it with a ✔!

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Compiling:

Prerequisites:

1. XCode 5 with current Mac SDK.
2. You must have a registered and licensed copy or RubyMotion on your computer. If you do not, you will need to purchase a license here. You should always be running the most recent version of RubyMotion.

cd into the directory and run bundle update

From there, use the make command to build the app. There are a few make options:

1. make run - builds the app and runs it.
2. make runclean - cleans all targets before running.
3. make build - builds the app for distribution.
4. make release - builds the app for app store release.