RubyMotion: The sleeper has awakened!

Why RubyMotion is awesome, the story behind Basecamp for iPhone, and more. Beta tested at WNYRuby, given at #inspect and PGH.rb.

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1. RubyMotion:
   The sleeper has
   awakened!
   Nick Quaranto - @qrush
   

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2. Buffalo, NY
   

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3. 37signals
   

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4. <3 RubyMotion!
   

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5. Basecamp for iPhone
   

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6. awakening
   

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7. I kept getting stuck.
   

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9. TORONTO DRIFT
   

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10. Break the cycle!
    

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11. Files - the first app
    

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14. and got rejected
    Rejected.
    

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19. I could not have
    done this without
    RubyMotion
    

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20. was a roadblock
    

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22. FREEDOM.
    

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23. +
    

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24. +
    

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25. what awakened?
    

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26. style
    

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27. I write to learn
    about software,
    and I learn
    software by
    writing it.
    

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28. snake_case
    def foo_bar(a, b)
    camelCase
    def fooBar(a, b: c)
    

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29. classic
    dialect
    

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30. ruby dialect
    

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31. eventmachine dialect
    

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32. jruby
    dialect
    

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33. objective-c dialect
    

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34. community
    

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35. RubyMotion Google Group
    

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36. github.com/rubymotion
    

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37. RubyMotion YARDocs
    

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38. github.com/HipByte/RubyMotion-Samples
    

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39. gem 'bubble-wrap'
    

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40. HTTP requests
    NSNotificationCenter
    Quick persistence
    Lots of shortcuts
    gem 'bubble-wrap'
    

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41. HTTP requests
    NSNotificationCenter
    Quick persistence
    App.run_after
    Device.screen
    gem 'bubble-wrap'
    

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42. gem 'motion-settings-bundle'
    

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43. # in your Rakefile
    require 'motion-settings-bundle'
    Motion::SettingsBundle.setup do |app|
    app.text "Version", key: "version", default: "1.0.0"
    app.toggle "Awesome?", key: "awesomeOn", default: true
    app.child "Acknowledgements" do |ack|
    ack.child "AwesomeOSSLibrary" do |lic|
    lic.group "Copyright 2013 AwesomeOSSContributor"
    lic.group "A bunch of legal stuff"
    end
    end
    end
    

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47. # horizontal
    "|-10-[switch]-10-|"
    "|-10-[help]-10-|"
    # vertical
    "|-15-[switch]-10-[help(==switch)]-15-|"
    

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48. DSL for NSLayoutConstraint
    iOS6+ Only
    Extracted from Basecamp.app
    No tests, but examples!
    gem 'motion-layout'
    

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49. Motion::Layout.new do |lay|
    lay.view self.view.tableFooterView
    lay.subviews "switch" => @switch, "help" => @help
    lay.vertical "|-15-[switch]-10-[help(==switch)]-15-|"
    lay.horizontal "|-10-[switch]-10-|"
    lay.horizontal "|-10-[help]-10-|"
    end
    

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50. resource
    

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54. +
    

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55. yours?
    

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56. thanks
    

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