Upgrade to PRO for Only $50/Year—Limited-Time Offer! 🔥

RubyMotion - the good, the bad and the ugly.

Avatar for Steven Ringo Steven Ringo
May 08, 2012
Programming
0
300

RubyMotion - the good, the bad and the ugly.

A presentation done at the Ruby on Rails Oceania meetup (Rorosyd) in May 2012

Avatar for Steven Ringo

Steven Ringo

May 08, 2012
Tweet

More Decks by Steven Ringo

See All by Steven Ringo
Disrupt yourself with a real-time, customer-centric data platform
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
0
100
Anticorrupting the Enterprise; 
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Serverless
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
0
380
Going serverless–
NoOps is the best ops
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
2
300
Ansible vs CloudFormation Smackdown!
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
6
3.8k
CloudFormation tips, tricks & best practices
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
0
890
Ansible: 10 tips and tricks
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
2
1.6k
Building APIs that delight (Part I)
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
1
220
Programming fundamentals for non-techies
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
2
360
Technical Cofounding 101
Avatar for Steven Ringo stevenringo
0
190

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
実は歴史的なアップデートだと思う AWS Interconnect - multicloud
Avatar for maroon1st maroon1st
0
260
Java 25, Nuevas características
Avatar for Carlos Zela Bueno czelabueno
0
110
re:Invent 2025 のイケてるサービスを紹介する
Avatar for maroon1st maroon1st
0
150
Jetpack XR SDKから紐解くAndroid XR開発と技術選定のヒント / about-androidxr-and-jetpack-xr-sdk
Avatar for にー兄さん drumath2237
1
190
Cap'n Webについて
Avatar for Yusuke Wada yusukebe
0
150
AIコーディングエージェント（Gemini）
Avatar for kondai kondai24
0
270
Claude Codeの「Compacting Conversation」を体感50%減！ CLAUDE.md + 8 Skills で挑むコンテキスト管理術
Avatar for Kazuki Murahama kmurahama
1
630
クラウドに依存しないS3を使った開発術
Avatar for しめさば simesaba80
0
160
Rubyで鍛える仕組み化プロヂュース力
Avatar for muryoimpl muryoimpl
0
160
Denoのセキュリティに関する仕組みの紹介 (toranoana.deno #23)
Avatar for uki00a uki00a
0
160
チームをチームにするEM
Avatar for hitode909 hitode909
0
370
tsgolintはいかにしてtypescript-goの非公開APIを呼び出しているのか
Avatar for syumai syumai
7
2.3k

Featured

See All Featured
Side Projects
Avatar for Sacha Greif sachag
455
43k
Easily Structure & Communicate Ideas using Wireframe
Avatar for Afnizar Nur Ghifari afnizarnur
194
17k
Efficient Content Optimization with Google Search Console & Apps Script
Avatar for Katarina Dahlin katarinadahlin
PRO
0
250
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
9
1k
Prompt Engineering for Job Search
Avatar for Mfonobong Umondia mfonobong
0
130
Large-scale JavaScript Application Architecture
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
515
110k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
Avatar for Garrett Dimon garrettdimon
PRO
307
120k
How to build an LLM SEO readiness audit: a practical framework
Avatar for Nick Samuel nmsamuel
1
580
Producing Creativity
Avatar for Steve Smith orderedlist
PRO
348
40k
Practical Orchestrator
Avatar for Shlomi Noach shlominoach
190
11k
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
Avatar for Harry Roberts csswizardry
37
3.5k
Agile Actions for Facilitating Distributed Teams - ADO2019
Avatar for Mark Kilby mkilby
0
94

Transcript

  1. RubyMotion

  2. Hi, I am Steve Ringo [email protected] @stevenringo

  3. ” “RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain for iOS. It lets

    you quickly develop and test native iOS applications for iPhone or iPad, all using the awesome Ruby language you know and love.

  4. The good

  5. Awesome ruby syntax

  6. REPL / IRB

  7. MacRuby under the hood

  8. No Xcode!

  9. None
  10. None
  11. None

  12. Memory Management

  13. Excitement

  14. Ecosystem

  15. Web dev-like experience

  16. The Bad

  17. Impedance mismatch

  18. Proprietary & expensive*

  19. No Xcode

  20. Not compatible with rubygems

  21. The ugly

  22. Haters gonna hate

  23. What’s the point? Objective-C is easy to learn! Only good

    for toy apps Still need to know the Cocoa APIs API is so huge, need IDE

  24. The verdict

  25. Will grow the ecosystem

  26. Ruby has a testing culture

  27. Truly native

  28. Are a lot of non-Cocoa development environments on iOS

  29. Will I use it for my next iOS project?

  30. Hell yeah!