RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS

By Tiago Franco, from Imaginary Cloud and WarRoom

https://twitter.com/gamafranco
http://www.warroom.io/
http://www.imaginarycloud.com/

Transcript

1. RUBYMOTION RUBY  FOR  iOS   DEPLOYING YOUR DREAMS Tiago Franco 21 February 2014
2. RUBYMOTION A  RUBY  TOOLCHAIN  FOR  DEVELOPING  IOS  APPLICATIONS   PAGE  2  
3. ABOUT -  Laurent Sansonetti -  Released by HipByte in May 2012 -  MacRuby port for iOS -  Fully compiled -  100% App Store compliant PAGE  3  
4. WHY BOTHER? PAGE  4   -  Ruby -  No code interpretation (fully compiled) -  IDE agnostic -  Terminal-based workflow -  REPL -  Testing
5. IMPLEMENTATION PAGE  5   iOS SDK Foundation Framework Objective-C Runtime Objective-C
6. IMPLEMENTATION PAGE  6   iOS SDK Foundation Framework Objective-C Runtime Objective-C RubyMotion
7. WORKFLOW PAGE  7   -  Terminal based -  rake -  Keep your editor -  RubyMine support -  Testing framework -  Deploy -  Testflight support
8. WORKFLOW PAGE  8   > motion create meetupDemo Create meetupDemo Create meetupDemo/.gitignore Create meetupDemo/app/app_delegate.rb Create meetupDemo/Gemfile Create meetupDemo/Rakefile Create meetupDemo/resources/Default-568h@2x.png Create meetupDemo/spec/main_spec.rb Code away…
9. WORKFLOW PAGE  9   > rake Build ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development Compile ./app/app_delegate.rb Create ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development/meetupDemo.app Link ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development/meetupDemo.app/meetupDemo Create ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development/meetupDemo.app/PkgInfo Create ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development/meetupDemo.app/Info.plist Copy ./resources/Default-568h@2x.png Create ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development/meetupDemo.dSYM Simulate ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development/meetupDemo.app (main)> > rake testflight notes=”Ready to distribute!" Deploy!
10. LEARN BY TRANSLATING PAGE  10  
11. REPL PAGE  11   -  Tab completion (irb-like) -  Interactive development -  ⌘ + click to change context (self) -  Traverse view hierarchy -  Modify objects in runtime
12. RUBYMOTION != MRI PAGE  12   -  No require -  No eval -  No Proc#binding -  Named parameters -  Regular gems need to be modified
13. COMMUNITY PAGE  13   -  RubyMotion wrappers -  DSLs -  BubbleWrap -  Sugarcube -  Teacup -  ProMotion -  … -  CocoaPods -  Dedicated conference -  #inspect 2014
14. TESTING PAGE  14   -  MacBacon (RSpec) -  Frank (Cucumber) -  Facon (motion-facon) -  Symbiote
15. DOWNSIDES PAGE  15   -  Not free (150€) -  Lack of static checks in compile time -  Debugging -  Hard to access low level layers
16. RESOURCES PAGE  16   -  Official website -  rubymotion.com -  RubyMotion Tutorial -  rubymotion-tutorial.com -  Google Groups -  groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rubymotion -  GitHub repositories -  github.com/HipByte -  RubyMotion Wrappers -  rubymotion-wrappers.com -  Screencasts -  motioninmotion.tv -  motioncasts.tv -  pragmaticstudio.com/screencasts/rubymotion
17. Imaginarycloud.com info@imaginarycloud.com +351 218 053 896 Rua Serpa Pinto, nº 14A, 3º andar 1200-445 Lisboa, Portugal