RubyMotion Thursday, April 25, 13

iOS SDK Foundation Framework Objective-C Runtime Ruby Obj-C ??? * * ~90% of Ruby and no stdlib Thursday, April 25, 13

NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: @"foo", @"bar",nil]; params = {"foo" => "bar"} Objective-c RubyMotion Simplistic Example Thursday, April 25, 13

UIBarButtonItem *btnMenu = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:@"Forms List" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(showMenu:)]; btn_menu = UIBarButtonItem.alloc.initWithTitle "Forms List", style: UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered, target: self, action: :"showMenu:" Realistic Example Objective-c RubyMotion Thursday, April 25, 13

class PhotoSourceController < UIViewController attr_accessor someProperty def tableView(tableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath) end @interface PhotoSourceController : UIViewController - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath Objective-c RubyMotion PhotoSource.h PhotoSource.m Thursday, April 25, 13

Objective-C RubyMotion Objective-C RubyMotion Migrating Practice RubyMotion Ruby Thursday, April 25, 13

VS Xcode Hell WTF?! +Rake +Bundler +YML +ERB config Thursday, April 25, 13

Route Controller View Model V ViewController Model View View View ViewController Web Development Application Development tl;dr: RubyMotion != Web Development RubyMotion == iOS Development Thursday, April 25, 13

Rails Design iOS Design HTML/JS/CSS really, really suck Pixel-perfect layouts Fuck float: left; Interface Design is a solved problem Pretty-good native UI elements You can do anything, eventually, with math “let the front-end developer do that” “oh god, it’s everywhere” Thursday, April 25, 13

Ben Sheldon sheldon@okcupidlabs.com Thursday, April 25, 13