RubyMotion - Unified Ruby Runtime for iOS & Android

Presentation on RubyMotion, given to the YYC Ruby Meeting in November 2016

1. RubyMotion Unified Ruby Runtime for iOS & Android YYC Ruby Meetup - November 1, 2016
2. Lori Olson Author coredatainmotion.com Creator WIMBY app (wimby.ca) Trainer/Instructor RoR4Real & Rails4iOS
4. But… • No it’s not interpreted • Yes it is compiled (LLVM) • No, it’s not free* • But you can start for free • Yes you have to wait for updates
8. iOS + macOS + watchOS + tvOS
9. And Android!
10. And there’s a REPL • Read • Evaluate • Print • Loop
11. Ruby Tools!
12. RubyGems
13. Bundler
14. Rake
15. No Xcode Required
16. Your fav editor
17. Speaking of gems
18. motion-cocoapods
19. motion-gradle
20. So many gems http://www.mywebpresenters.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/choosing-a-corporate-video-production-company.jpg
21. But Rails?
22. the RubyMotion community has combined and tested the most active and powerful gems into a single package called RedPotion
23. Blue Potion • ProMotion Android • RMQ Android • work in progress • because
24. Flow the “missing” Ruby standard library for RubyMotion
25. Flow • UI - User interface framework • Net - HTTP networking and host reachability • JSON - JSON serialization • Digest - Digest cryptography • Store - Key-value store • Base64 - Base64 encoding/decoding • Location - Location management and (reverse) geocoding • Task - Lightweight tasks scheduler
26. Demos!!!
27. Thanks sponsors!