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RUBYMOTION
RUBY
FOR
iOS
DEPLOYING YOUR DREAMS
Tiago Franco
21 February 2014
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RUBYMOTION
A
RUBY
TOOLCHAIN
FOR
DEVELOPING
IOS
APPLICATIONS
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ABOUT
- Laurent Sansonetti
- Released by HipByte in
May 2012
- MacRuby port for iOS
- Fully compiled
- 100% App Store compliant
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WHY BOTHER?
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- Ruby
- No code interpretation
(fully compiled)
- IDE agnostic
- Terminal-based workflow
- REPL
- Testing
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IMPLEMENTATION
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iOS SDK
Foundation Framework
Objective-C Runtime
Objective-C
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IMPLEMENTATION
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iOS SDK
Foundation Framework
Objective-C Runtime
Objective-C
RubyMotion
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WORKFLOW
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- Terminal based
- rake
- Keep your editor
- RubyMine support
- Testing framework
- Deploy
- Testflight support
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WORKFLOW
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> motion create meetupDemo
Create meetupDemo
Create meetupDemo/.gitignore
Create meetupDemo/app/app_delegate.rb
Create meetupDemo/Gemfile
Create meetupDemo/Rakefile
Create meetupDemo/resources/[email protected]
Create meetupDemo/spec/main_spec.rb
Code
away…
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WORKFLOW
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> 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/[email protected]
Create ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development/meetupDemo.dSYM
Simulate ./build/iPhoneSimulator-7.0-Development/meetupDemo.app
(main)>
> rake testflight notes=”Ready to distribute!"
Deploy!
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LEARN BY TRANSLATING
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REPL
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- Tab completion (irb-like)
- Interactive development
- ⌘ + click to change context (self)
- Traverse view hierarchy
- Modify objects in runtime
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RUBYMOTION != MRI
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- No require
- No eval
- No Proc#binding
- Named parameters
- Regular gems need to be
modified
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COMMUNITY
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- RubyMotion wrappers
- DSLs
- BubbleWrap
- Sugarcube
- Teacup
- ProMotion
- …
- CocoaPods
- Dedicated conference
- #inspect 2014
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TESTING
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- MacBacon (RSpec)
- Frank (Cucumber)
- Facon (motion-facon)
- Symbiote
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DOWNSIDES
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- Not free (150€)
- Lack of static checks in
compile time
- Debugging
- Hard to access low level
layers
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RESOURCES
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- 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
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Imaginarycloud.com
[email protected]
+351 218 053 896
Rua Serpa Pinto, nº 14A, 3º andar
1200-445 Lisboa, Portugal