Ruby on Rails => RubyMotion

Ben Golden and Tim Segraves present the journey of 2 Rails developers exploring the world of iOS development with RubyMotion.

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1. Ruby on Rails => Ruby Motion Presenters: Ben Golden and Tim Segraves SendGrid Software Engineers Date: January 15, 2013 Tuesday, January 15, 13
2. Agenda • Our Background • What is Ruby Motion • How to Get Started • Useful Resources • Demo • Questions Tuesday, January 15, 13
3. Ben Golden • Rails Developer • Aspiring Brewer • Mobile Experience • Several For Fun Android Apps •Favorite Beer Style: Stouts and IPAs Tuesday, January 15, 13
4. Tim Segraves • Rails Developer • Mobile Experience • 2 Days Xcode/iOS • 1 Sencha and 1 JQuery Mobile app • Favorite Beer Style: Imperial IPA Tuesday, January 15, 13
5. The Setup • Make sure XCode is installed (and updated) • Install RubyMotion • From Terminal: •motion create project Tuesday, January 15, 13
6. External Tools • BubbleWrap • SugarCube • Teacup • Motion CocoaPods Tuesday, January 15, 13
7. BubbleWrap • Helpers and Wrappers for CocoaTouch • Some Utilities Included: • HTTP • JSON • GeoLocation • Camera • Notifications http://bubblewrap.io Tuesday, January 15, 13
8. SugarCube • Syntactic Sugar for your Cocoa • "#ff00ff".uicolor == :fuchsia.uicolor == 0xff00ff.uicolor • # => UIColor.colorWithRed(1.0, green:0.0, blue:1.0, alpha:1.0) • "https://github.com".nsurl.open • # => UIApplication.sharedApplication.openURL(NSURL.URLWithString("https:// github.com")) http://git.io/sugarcube Tuesday, January 15, 13
9. TeaCup • CSS for RubyMotion http://git.io/teacup Tuesday, January 15, 13
10. Motion CocoaPods • Integrate With CocoaPods • Use pods such as JSONKit or CorePlot app.pods do pod 'CorePlot' end http://git.io/motionpods Tuesday, January 15, 13
11. Ruby, but not. • Ruby Motion means writing 100% ruby • Ruby Motion does NOT mean reading 100% ruby • Still feels a lot like ruby with the right tools Tuesday, January 15, 13
12. Demo App Tuesday, January 15, 13
13. Community App Tuesday, January 15, 13
14. Questions? Tuesday, January 15, 13