Gavin Morrice Bodacious

RubyMotion comes with some syntax idioms that are not strictly idiomatic Ruby.

For example, in an iOS app we'd often see these two methods defined in a subclass of UITableViewController

    -(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
    {
      // callback code for selecting table rows goes here...

Here's A handy helper for showing loading cells in iOS Apps with Rubymotion

To use, simply include the class in your project and then from within your controller:

# in my controller

def tableView(tableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath: indexPath)
  # return a loading cell
 LoadingCell.loadingCellWithTableView(self.tableView)

This is a work in progress...

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Transposing An Existing XCode Project to Rubymotion

For the last two weeks I've been working flat out with Rubymotion, a new toolchain that allows developers to build native iOS applications using the beautiful, elegant Ruby programming language instead of the verbose and somewhat fussy Objective-C programming language.

The app I've been working on is an existing client app we've been developing for several months. The app was about 80% ready for a pilot launch but still had quite a bit of development to go before being shipped. After discussing Rubymotion with the client, we agreed that it would save us both time and money in future development if we move over to Rubymotion. I was tasked with doing the migration; transposing the entire application to Rubymotion.

Timescale

For those of you looking to do the same, here are some stats that might help you estimate the time required and the costs

There's not a great deal of documentation on the options available when configuring your Rakefile in Rubymotion.

I figure having the community share what's in theirs will help other developers get a better idea of how they should configure their own project.

	class MyController < ApplicationController

	def update
	if resource.update_attributes(params[:resource])
	render json: resource, status: :ok # status is :ok by default so feel free to remove this option
	else
	render json: { errors: resource.errors }, status: :unprocessable_entity
	end
	end

	PROMPT='%{$fg[cyan]%}%c%{$fg_bold[blue]%}$(git_prompt_info)%{$fg_bold[blue]%}% %{$reset_color%}:'

	ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX="(%{$fg[blue]%}"
	ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX="%{$reset_color%}"
	ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="%{$fg[blue]%}) %{$fg[red]%}✗%{$reset_color%}"
	ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="%{$fg[blue]%})"

	module ActiveRecord

	class Base

	COLUMN_TYPES_MAPPING = {
	:int => 'INTEGER',
	:long => 'INTEGER',
	:longLongInt => 'BIGINT',
	:bool => 'BOOLEAN',
	:double => 'DECIMAL',

	$:.unshift("/Library/RubyMotion/lib")

	require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'version')

	require 'motion/project'

	require 'bundler'

	Bundler.require