Mobile Days 2016, Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey).

1. Improving your
workflow with
RUBYMOTION

2. Mark Villacampa
Madrid (Spain)
!"☀
😴🎸

3. WHO
WHAT
WHY
HOW
WHEN
WHERE

4. WHO is behind
RubyMotion?

5. Laurent Sansonetti
Started the MacRuby open source
project inside Apple in 2008
Left Apple and released RubyMotion
in 2012 as a commercial product
HipByte - Team of 3 people working
from Japan, Belgium and Spain

6. RUBYMOTION

8. WHAT is RubyMotion?

10. Android runtime
Objective-C runtime
Compiler
Build system

11. Command line
Compile ruby files
Generate executable
Package application
Launch application

12. LLVM

13. Framework to create compilers
Maintained by Apple
Used by the clang compiler
Best logo EVER

14. Ruby code
Abstract Syntax Tree
LLVM IR
Assembly
Runtime

15. Android
Dalvik / ART
Java Native Interface Java
RubyMotion

16. iOS
Foundation Framework
RubyMotion
Objective-C Runtime
Objective-C Swift

17. WHY should you use
RubyMotion?

18. iOS Android
Language
Objective-C
Swift
Java
Environment Xcode Android Studio
APIs iOS SDK Android SDK

19. iOS Android
Language Ruby
Environment Your Editor + Terminal
APIs iOS SDK Android SDK

20. Ruby

21. Created by Yukihiro Matsumoto in Japan
in the mid 1990's
Designed for programmer productivity
and fun
Flexible, concise, powerful syntax
Easy to learn by beginners
Popular for web development using Ruby
on Rails

22. Object-oriented
Dynamically typed
Metaprogramming

23. class Animal
attr_accessor :name
end
class Dog < Animal
def bark
puts "Woof woof!"
end
end
my_dog = Dog.new
my_dog.name = "Rocky"
my_dog.bark

24. my_dog.define_singleton_method("jump") do
puts "I'm jumping!"
end
my_dog.jump

25. describe "Application" do
before do
@app = UIApplication.sharedApplication
end
it "has one window" do
@app.windows.size.should == 1
end
end
Testing

26. Easy to integrate 3rd party code
no wrappers required
motion-cocoapods motion-gradle
rubygems

27. Cross-platform
motion-game - framework to
create games
Flow - commonly used apis

28. github.com/HipByte

30. BYOE
(Bring Your Own Editor)
Vim
Emacs
Sublime Text
RubyMine
Textmate
Atom

32. REPL
(Read Eval Print Loop)
> 1 + 2
=> 3
> "Hello Mobile Günler".upcase
=> "HELLO MOBILE GÜNLER"

33. Debugger
(lldb)
frame #6: 0x000000010000548f
mobilgunler`rb_scope__application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:__(s
0000010a576800, application=<unavailable>, launchOptions=<unavailabl
1439 at app_delegate.rb:13
10 @window.rootViewController = navigationController
11 @window.makeKeyAndVisible
12
-> 13 oops
14
15 true
16 end
(lldb)

34. Code reloading

35. HOW do you use
RubyMotion?

36. DEMO

37. WHERE can you get
RubyMotion?

38. rubymotion.com/download

39. WHEN should you get
RubyMotion?

40. NOW!

41. @MarkVillacampa
m@markvillacampa.com