From Ruby to Rubymotion

Valencia.rb 7/22

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1. Valencia.rb 7/22
   From Ruby to
   Rubymotion
   

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2. malacot
   Marco Alacot
   Developer @ peerTransfer
   marcoalacot
   Mostly Ruby,
   NO previous experience with
   mobile development
   

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3. What is this all about?
   Show how it’s like opening the box of
   Rubymotion from the perspective of a Ruby
   developer.
   
   Enumerate the possibilities and the biggest
   challenges
   
   Explain how it works showing some internals
   and some code.
   

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4. How I met with RubyMotion?
   

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5. Why Rubymotion?
   We wanted to do a spike of a mobile app
   
   No iOS nor Android developers
   
   No time nor willing to learn Objective C
   
   Many Ruby developers...
   

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6. RubyMotion it’s a
   toolchain from Hipbyte
   
   It was created after MacRuby by an ex-Apple
   employee
   
   it allows to develop native apps for iOS and
   OS X (Android coming soon) using Ruby.
   What is Rubymotion?
   COMMERCIAL
   

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7. Ok… It’s a commercial
   product, but…
   
   How much it cost?
   iOS developer license: 99$ per year
   Rubymotion: 199$
   TOTAL: 298$
   

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8. Also, you said that
   
   I only need to know
   Ruby, right??
   

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9. Also, you said that I
   only need to know
   Ruby right??
   

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10. initWithNib
    UIControl
    didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions
    NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler
    UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, inset, 0, 0)
    Also, you said that I
    only need to know
    Ruby right??
    

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11. First challenge:
    
    You will need to
    
    know the platform
    API’s.
    

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12. Main features
    

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13. Ruby statically compiled
    

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14. Runtime
    

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15. Rake based toolchain
    

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16. REPL
    

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17. No Xcode!
    

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18. Keep your own editor!
    

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19. Rspec like testing
    framework
    

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21. Second challenge:
    
    How MVC applies to
    a mobile application?
    

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22. MVC?
    

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23. MVC?
    

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24. MVC?
    

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25. We said that we need to
    know the iOS API´s
    But, is there a way to
    “rubify” a little bit it’s
    syntax?
    

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26. Bubblewrap
    

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27. Alternatives to
    Rubymotion?
    

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28. Alternatives to
    Rubymotion
    MobiRuby
    Ruboto
    

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29. Android support
    

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30. Ruby Statically compiled
    
    Terminal based toolchain
    
    No need to use Eclipse (Keep your
    favourite editor!)
    
    Rspec like testing framework
    
    Easy debugging with REPL
    Same features:
    

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31. Ok, that looks good,
    
    but we have Swift now..
    

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32. Swift VS Rubymotion
    “Your customers care about what’s on the surface of your app:
    does it look, interact, and feel like an iOS app? If you can do
    that, the language doesn’t matter.
    
    !
    There is no right answer to this question. Choose what the
    language that speaks to you and then go build something
    awesome.”
    
    !
    Justin Williams, Learning How To Make Sausage
    

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33. Conclusions
    Rubymotion it’s not only the possibility to
    use Ruby for develop iOS and Android apps
    
    The framework API’s have always been the
    secret sauce. Whether you’re using
    Objective-C, Swift, C#, or Ruby you’re still
    going to have to learn how to use a
    UIButton or a UITableView.
    
    Swift, Ruby or Objective C are only tools,
    you can do great thinks with any, choose
    what tool you love the most!
    

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34. Where can I find help?
    Rubymotion Documentation
    
    Rubymotion Google user group (very active)
    
    Motioninmotion.tv
    

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35. Thank you!!!
    

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