macruby_json_experiment.rb

#!/usr/bin/env macruby
# example using Twitter API

framework 'Cocoa'
framework 'JSON'

url = NSURL.URLWithString "http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json"
request = NSURLRequest.requestWithURL(url)
response = NSURLConnection.sendSynchronousRequest(request, returningResponse:nil, error:nil)
json_string = NSString.alloc.initWithData(response, encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding)

# SBJSON parser object from JSON.framework
parser = SBJSON.alloc.init

# parse the JSON response into an NSArray of NSDictionary status objects
twitter_statuses = parser.objectWithString(json_string, error:nil)

twitter_statuses.each { |s| puts s['text'] }