Inside RubyMotion
summary
RubyMotion compiles Ruby 1.9 ahead-of-time with LLVM into native iOS binaries, preserving Ruby’s dynamism except for no eval, and produces small runtimes (a Mustachio demo app is 0.9 MB) while running on the exact Objective‑C runtime. It uses a rake-based toolchain, integrates CocoaPods, debugs with DWARF/GDB in the simulator, and already powers App Store apps like Everclip (accepted, won Evernote Dev Cup). Over 500 GitHub projects and common libs (BubbleWrap, Teacup, Formotion) show usable abstractions and testing support.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:21Why RubyMotion
- 2:56What is RubyMotion
- 4:41Runtime
- 8:04ObjectiveC
- 9:15Compiler
- 12:30Classes
- 13:17App Size
- 14:18Tool Chain
- 15:37Debugging
- 17:05Testing
- 25:55Cocoapods
- 29:25Teacup
- 33:53Demo
- 41:29Conclusion
- 43:03Questions
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