Using Ruby to build iOS apps

1. RubyMotion
Using Ruby to build iOS apps

2. iOS Development
Objective C
Lua
Ruby!
April 28 released (beta)
http://www.rubymotion.com

4. RubyMotion
NOT free - $199
*requires* iOS Developer license as
well (so + $99)

5. Ruby
It’s Ruby!
gems
bundler
http://thunderboltlabs.com/posts/
using-bundler-with-rubymotion

6. iOS Development
Obj-C
Xcode
AppCode (JetBRAINS)
Ruby
Any text editor (vi, emacs, Sublime)
RubyMine
http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

7. Libraries
CocoaPods
gem install cocoapods
pod setup
gem install motion-cocoapods
“Vendoring”

9. iOS Development
Interface Builder
StoryBoards
Just copy your storyboard file into
‘resources’ and GO!

10. Storyboards
RubyMotionSamples
https://github.com/HipByte/
RubyMotionSamples
ib gem
https://github.com/yury/ib
nitron project (hold)

11. DSL’s
teacup
https://github.com/rubymotion/teacup
motion-layouts
https://github.com/malkomalko/motion-layouts
SimpleView
https://github.com/simon/SimpleView
Formotion
https://github.com/clayallsopp/formotion

12. Libraries
gems!
lots of!

13. Bubblewrap
nice wrapper functions
now part of RubyMotion project
http://bubblewrap.io

15. Code (Obj-C)
NSDictionary *rules = [NSDictionary
dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSNumber
NumberWithBool:TRUE],"RubyMotionIsAwesome",nil];

16. Code (Ruby)
rules = { ‘RubyMotionIsAwesome’ => 1 }

17. Named Parameters
self.navigationController.pushViewController(
view_controller,
animated:true
)

18. Ruby Tooling
Guard
Code Coverage
Continuous Builds
RSpec

19. Testing
spec/main_spec.rb
mostly boilerplate in examples
Frank/Cucumber
Functional testing (UIAutomation)

20. Documentation
RubyMotion site has tonnes
Buy Dash. Really.
Ruby & iOS API docs, searchable,
easy