May 2013
2 posts
ShowKit Now Supports RubyMotion
ShowKit is an SDK for mobile devices to enable audio/video conferencing and screen/gesture sharing. Check out the demo video!
We are glad to report that ShowKit’s newest release now supports RubyMotion! Embedding the ShowKit SDK into your RubyMotion app is as easy as vendoring it, you can refer to the documentation for instructions.
MotionBundler: Good Old Fashioned Requirements for...
(This is a guest post from Paul Engel, creator and maintainer of MotionBundler)
When I started writing my first RubyMotion application, I almost immediately wanted to use a Ruby gem to accomplish a certain goal. After setting up my Gemfile, running bundle and rake in the Terminal, I soon discovered that it wasn’t possible to just require any random gem I wanted to: it had to be aware of it...
Introducing ProMotion, a Full-Featured RubyMotion...
(This is a guest post from Jamon Holmgren, creator and maintainer of ProMotion)
Last August I started working on a new RubyMotion app. I quickly realized that one of UIKit’s most frequent pain points is working with UINavigationControllers, UITabBarControllers, and UIViewControllers — it just took too many lines of code to move around in my app. That led to the idea behind ProMotion: abstracting...
RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OS X Support,...
It has been exactly a year since we launched RubyMotion. Yep, this is right, RubyMotion is one year old!
We released over the year a total of 35 software updates fixing countless bugs reported by our beloved users. That’s almost 3 updates per month on average!
We shipped significant features such as creating static libraries, debugging support (on both simulator and device), API...
April 2013
4 posts
RubyMotion #inspect 2013 Wrap-Up
Just a few weeks ago the first RubyMotion conference was happening in our home town of Brussels, Belgium! And guess what, it was pretty awesome!
It was the first conference we ever organized. We would like to share our experience in this post as well as cover what happened!
The Venue
We wanted the first conference to be friendly, diverse and exclusive. We initially fixed the maximum number of...
Algolia Search Adds RubyMotion Support
Algolia Search is a product that lets you implement real-time instant search in your app, with features like type-ahead search, typo-tolerance, instant visual feedback and geosearch.
We are glad to report that they just announced that they will support RubyMotion!
We worked together with the folks at Algolia on a RubyMotion integration gem that lets you easily integrate their offline SDK.
The...
Announcing MotionMeetup: Monthly Online RubyMotion...
(This is a guest post from Gant Laborde)
While RubyMotion continues to build momentum, it’s obvious that not everyone can attend such endeavors as RubyMotion #inspect or the public RubyMotion training in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fear not! From the community of RubyMotion developers we’re happy to announce a new monthly online meetup for everyone, worldwide, called MotionMeetup.
This online...
RubyMotion Success Story: Basecamp for iPhone
37signals released last month an official iPhone app for Basecamp, their flagship project management software. It is the first iOS app developed completely in-house at 37signals.
As you may have already heard, the Basecamp app is written in RubyMotion. Since Nick Quaranto was speaking at our conference last week, we decided to take advantage of the opportunity to record a quick interview with him...
March 2013
4 posts
RubyMotion Success Story: Inktera
Page Foundry created Inktera as a platform for authors, publishers and booksellers to take control of their online presence. More than just an ebook store, Inktera links the website, blogs, Facebook and Twitter profiles, and more - allowing you to build native Apple iOS and Android apps in just a few minutes!
We sat down with Dan McFarland to talk about Inktera and their experience using...
Announcing a RubyMotion Training in San Francisco
We are excited to announce that we will be giving a public RubyMotion training in the San Francisco Bay Area the 8-12 July of this year.
This is a 5-day class that will teach you everything you need to know about iOS and RubyMotion, from the very basic concepts to advanced topics. Experience with iOS is absolutely not required.
At the end of the training you should be able to start writing...
RubyMotion Success Story: Jukely
Bora Celik and Andrew Cornett created Jukely for music lovers to get hand-picked recommendations for local live music concerts and to discover new music. They used RubyMotion to create a visually stunning app that has already hit 5 stars in the app store!
We sat down with Bora to talk about his experience using RubyMotion.
First, please tell us a little bit about your app, Jukely
Jukely is...
RubyMotion #inspect 2013: Conference Sold Out,...
We are happy to announce that RubyMotion #inspect 2013 is sold out! We expect a little over 130 folks to join us in Brussels, Belgium in just about 3 weeks!
We may have some tickets left in case of cancelations. Let us know if you want us to notify you in this case.
Last Speakers
We are finally announcing our last speakers:
Rich Kilmer, which we don’t have to present, will be talking...
February 2013
4 posts
Bug Tracker Now Public
We are pleased to inform that our bug tracker is now publicly available. Users of RubyMotion will now be able to see all known bugs and, after having created a personal account on the platform, also comment, vote and subscribe to individual bugs.
We started importing bugs to this new platform and while the process isn’t complete yet, we believe that we have already listed the most important...
Colin T.A. Gray Joins the RubyMotion Team!
Colin is a software developer from Denver, CO and, as the author of both Teacup and SugarCube, a popular figure in the RubyMotion community. Colin is also very active on the Google group and our #rubymotion IRC channel on the freenode network.
Colin agreed to help us build an amazing community around RubyMotion. You will read more from him very soon on this blog and other channels!
...
Joffrey Jaffeux Joins the RubyMotion Team!
Joffrey is a French software developer and the author of one of the most widely used iOS app in France, 02 Minutes d’Attente, which has been sitting in the Top 10 Free Apps category of the local App Store for a while. Of course, the app is entirely written in RubyMotion.
Joffrey masters the toolchain very well and has agreed to help us by joining our support team on a part-time basis. If...
RubyMotion #inspect: New Speakers, Few Tickets...
In a bit more than a month we will be opening the doors to our first RubyMotion conference, 28-29th March in Brussels, Belgium.
We are so excited! Two entire days of 100% RubyMotion talks!
New Speakers
We are announcing 4 new speakers!
Delisa Mason is a software developer living in Ohio and the creator of the RubyMotion plugin for Redcar, the ruby editor. She will talk about customizing an...
January 2013
4 posts
Scan Barcodes and Images with Moodstocks and...
Moodstocks is a company that provides an image recognition and barcode decoding API for mobile apps. Their product is really astonishing as you can see from this video.
They have been working on integrating their SDK with the RubyMotion toolchain and published their results:
RubyMotion is a revolutionary tool. It not only offers developers a new way to build iOS applications, but also shows...
Pixate Launches with RubyMotion Support
Pixate is a framework for iOS that lets you easily create and style beautiful user interfaces using CSS. Pixate was in private beta for the last weeks and is now publicly available.
We were so impressed by the work of the Pixate folks that we worked closely with them to create a RubyMotion-Pixate gem which nicely integrates the Pixate framework in RubyMotion projects. Check out how it works by...
RubyMotion #inspect: New Speakers, Early-Bird...
In case you have not heard about it, we are organizing our very first RubyMotion conference, the 28-29th March in Brussels, Belgium.
It will be a 2-day, one-track conference full of short, 100% RubyMotion talks. It will undoubtedly be awesome!
Please see our our previous post for more information about the conference.
Early-Bird Discount
The Early-Bird tickets have been going fast, so you...
First RubyMotion Training: Mission Accomplished
Happy new year folks!
We delivered our very first RubyMotion training in late December of last year in spicy Gurgaon (Delhi), India. What a great way to finish an awesome year.
We trained during 5 days about 15 software engineers from McKinsey & Company IT, ThoughtWorks and Tata Consultancy Services to the RubyMotion platform and iOS development APIs.
Laurent and Norberto are amazing...
December 2012
3 posts
RubyMotion in the Cloud
The awesome folks at Thunderbolt Labs have self-published a short book about RubyMotion: RubyMotion in the Cloud.
This is a 40-page PDF that teaches you how to integrate both AFNetworking and RestKit with a RubyMotion project and build a client/server REST architecture.
The book is full of code snippets and we recommend that you grab a copy if you need any help connecting a RubyMotion app to a...
The Pragmatic Bookshelf Publishes a RubyMotion...
The very first RubyMotion book, published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf, no less, is now available in both eBook and paper format.
The author of this book is not just anybody. Clay Allsopp has been a very active member of the RubyMotion community, writing an excellent tutorial and having worked on several wrappers. Clay is also working on Propeller, a RubyMotion-based product that lets you build...
Announcing #inspect 2013, the RubyMotion...
We are super excited to announce the first official RubyMotion conference to be held in Brussels, Belgium on the 28th and 29th March, 2013.
Two days. Single track. 100% RubyMotion. A limited number of early birds tickets are now on sale with a 20% discount!
A 100% RubyMotion event
RubyMotion has been around for about 8 months but the community around it has been growing so fast we believe it...
November 2012
1 post
RubyMotion API Reference, Smart File Dependencies
Time for another significant RubyMotion release! RubyMotion 1.28 is now available featuring a couple interesting new features as well as its traditional set of bug fixes.
RubyMotion API Reference
As RubyMotion compiles down to iOS and uses the exact same APIs as Objective-C, a RubyMotion developer has to discover and learn the official APIs. This is often done by browsing Apple’s official...
October 2012
3 posts
Announcing RubyMotion Trainings
We are thrilled to announce that we now offer a full course on RubyMotion.
The training program has been tailored for Ruby developers with no experience with iOS. The course should teach you everything you need to know about RubyMotion and iOS so that you can start developing full-fledged iPhone and iPad apps in Ruby.
We have not scheduled a public training yet, but if you are interested, please...
RubyMine Gets RubyMotion Support
We are super excited to report that RubyMotion support just landed in the RubyMine Early Access Program, codenamed Enoki. This is an awesome news!
RubyMine is a Ruby IDE developed by JetBrains. It offers many interesting features such as context-aware auto-completion, refactoring, code analysis, and many more.
We have been working with the great folks at JetBrains on this and while there are...
RubyMotion Highlighted in ThoughtWorks Technology...
ThoughtWorks, a large IT consulting firm, recently published the latest edition of its Technology Radar, a document aimed at covering technologies that should be explored by developers.
RubyMotion is highlighted in the Languages & Frameworks section in the Assess ring, which encompasses technologies worth exploring with the goal of understanding how it will affect your enterprise.
...
September 2012
2 posts
RubyMotion gets iOS 6, iPhone 5, debugger
We are glad to announce that RubyMotion 1.24 is available to all users. This is by far the biggest software update we have done so far, so let’s go through the most important changes.
iOS 6 SDK
This release adds support for the iOS 6 SDK.
Unlike some other mobile development platforms, RubyMotion is a pure native toolchain that can automatically support new SDKs, just like Apple’s...
Shizuo Fujita (Watson) joins the RubyMotion team!
RubyMotion was released to the world just over 5 months ago and, in the time since, development and support has been a single-person effort. The success of RubyMotion so far has only been possible thanks to the wonderful community that has grown up around this young project.
HipByte, the company behind RubyMotion, is deliberately 100% bootstrapped without outside funding. Thanks to the support of...
August 2012
1 post
1 tag
RubyMotion Success Story: Cabify
We had the great pleasure to talk to Mark Villacampa about Cabify and their use of RubyMotion in production. Another great RubyMotion success story!
Hi Mark! Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Could you introduce yourself? I’m a 20 year-old Electronic Engineering student from Madrid (Spain), who also happens to be a programmer. I’m currently on an internship as a software developer at...
July 2012
4 posts
An Awesome RubyMotion Tutorial
Clay Allsopp generously contributed an awesome tutorial about RubyMotion.
Check it out here: http://rubymotion-tutorial.com
The tutorial will help you getting started with RubyMotion and introduce you to fundamental iOS programming concepts such as views, controllers, containers, tables, animations, models, and so on!
There is no doubt this is the best tutorial about RubyMotion available out...
1 tag
RubyMotion Success Story: EverClip
To bootstrap our success stories series we had the great pleasure to talk to Francis Chong who just released EverClip, the first commercial app written in RubyMotion.
Hi Francis! Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Could you introduce yourself?
I’m the co-founder of Ignition Soft. We are a small team focused on crafting mobile apps. You just shipped EverClip, a pretty cool app for...
Functional View and Controller Testing with...
RubyMotion now features a brand-new testing layer that lets you write functional specifications for the views and controllers of your application.
This layer is added on top of the existing testing framework and leverages the functionality of Apple’s UIAutomation framework. This video gives a quick overview to get you started:
Compared to the traditional usage of UIAutomation the...
RubyMotion Episode at The Changelog
A few weeks ago we had the great pleasure to participate to The Changelog, a popular podcast about software development technologies. We obviously talked about RubyMotion but also about MacRuby and its history, when we created the project back at Apple a few years ago.
We were told that this is one of their most popular episodes with over 40 thousand listens in just under a week! Check it out and...
June 2012
2 posts
Upcoming RubyMotion Talks
Ruby Lugdunum (June 22-23)
We had a lot of fun presenting RubyMotion last week at Ruby Lugdunum (aka RuLu) in sunny Lyon, France.
It was also our first opportunity to meet RubyMotion users and exchange great ideas! We would like to thank the organizers for setting up such a great event.
Cascadia Ruby (August 3-4)
We will be at Cascadia Ruby in Seattle, WA to talk about RubyMotion. We will...
Community, Open Source, Updates
Community
We are simply amazed by how quickly a community has formed around RubyMotion since the very first day it was released.
RubyMotion is about to turn one month old and there are already more than 100 projects on GitHub, including sample projects, DSL libraries and support for various text editors. A big Thank You to you guys!
Open Source
After much thought and deliberation, we decided...
May 2012
2 posts
App Store, Updates, Newsletter
An App in the App Store
Mustachio, a RubyMotion app, is now available in the App Store. The app is free and the source code is available on the HipByte/Mustachio repository on GitHub.
Mustachio is an improved version of the Mustache sample code. Improvements have been contributed by professional gesticulator Eloy Duran of Fingertips (these guys are amazing!).
As you can see this is a pretty...
What a week!
It has been exactly a week since RubyMotion was released to the wild and so many things happened that we had to cover this in a blog post. We have been overwhelmed by the success of our launch and the wonderful community that has so immediately formed around RubyMotion. The Community As of today there are about 55 RubyMotion-related repositories on GitHub, all contributed by RubyMotion users....
