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Thom Parkin
January 10, 2013
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RubyMotion - How I learned to like iOS despite Objective-C
First talk of the year for Orlando Ruby User Group (ORUG)
Thom Parkin
January 10, 2013
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RubyMotion How I learned to like iOS despite Objective-C
iOS Mobile Development
iOS Mobile Development Objective-C ME
Objective-C syntax is bizarre & strange Struggle with nuances of
XCode Interface Builder is very “GUI” iOS follows MVC [generally] iOS Mobile Development
iOS Mobile Development Objective - C
iOS Mobile Development Objectionable-C
Obtuse iOS Mobile Development Objectionable-C
RubyMotion ‘Toolchain for iOS’ (iPhone/iPad/iPod) NOT PhoneGap or Rhomobile Creates
statically compiled, native code Fully compliant with App Store guidelines
RubyMotion Familiar environment Ruby*, MVC Tests (MacBacon) Memory Management Ruby
Gems Rake CLI (Terminal based workflow) *still required to understand structure and syntax of Obj-C
RubyMotion Debugger (introduced in 1.24) Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) Huge community Libraries
and DSLs Mix Objective-C and Ruby
RubyMotion Laurent Sansonetti Creator and lead developer of MacRuby left
Apple late 2011 HipByte (small team) Made by Rubyists for Rubyists
RubyMotion Match Made in Heaven?
RubyMotion Match Made in Heaven? Marriage between MacRuby and iOS
iOS Mobile Development RubyMotion Only ONE file (.rb)
iOS Mobile Development RubyMotion NSObject is root class Only ONE
file (.rb)
iOS Mobile Development RubyMotion NSObject is root class implicit return
Only ONE file (.rb)
iOS Mobile Development RubyMotion NSObject is root class Duck typing
implicit return Only ONE file (.rb)
iOS Mobile Development RubyMotion NSObject is root class Duck typing
“sensible” dot notation implicit return Only ONE file (.rb)
RubyMotion
RubyMotion ENOUGH TALK LET’S CODE iOS in RUBY!!
RubyMotion No `eval` (statically compiled) No proc#binding No define_method Named
Parameters RVM / Bundler / Gems is NOT pure Ruby
RubyMotion Learning Objective-C slow painful Ruby familiar fun Conclusion
RubyMotion Purchase RubyMotion (~$200)* license key 1 year software updates
1 year private ticket system “How Do I Get Started?!” * 10% discount code
RubyMotion Google Group GitHub HipByte/RubyMotion ParkinT/RubyMotion_Life/wiki ParkinT/RubyMotionSamples ParkinT/F1rstUse Resources
RubyMotion Book Clay Allsopp Wiki Tutorials Official Samples repo MotionCasts
Conference #inspect Resources