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RubyMotion - the good, the bad and the ugly.

Steven Ringo
May 08, 2012
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RubyMotion - the good, the bad and the ugly.

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

Steven Ringo

May 08, 2012
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Transcript

  1. RubyMotion

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

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  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.

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  4. The good

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  5. Awesome ruby syntax

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  6. REPL / IRB

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  7. MacRuby under the hood

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  8. No Xcode!

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  12. Memory Management

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  13. Excitement

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  14. Ecosystem

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  15. Web dev-like experience

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  16. The Bad

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  17. Impedance mismatch

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  18. Proprietary &
    expensive*

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  19. No Xcode

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  20. Not compatible with rubygems

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  21. The ugly

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  22. Haters gonna hate

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  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

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  24. The verdict

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  25. Will grow the ecosystem

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  26. Ruby has a testing culture

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  27. Truly native

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

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

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  30. Hell yeah!

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