Building your first native iOS Salesforce App in Ruby

Kevin Poorman Technical Architect at Madrona Solutions group & Force.com MVP@CodeFriar

Kevin PoormanTechnical Architect at Madrona Solutions Group & Force.com MVPTwitter: @CodeFriar

Agenda• What is RubyMotion?

• Why use RubyMotion?• Considerations

• Getting started• Commas Save Lives

• Project Management• The Rakefile

• Objective-c to Ruby• Demo App walkthrough• Code walkthrough• Q/A

What is RubyMotion?• Toolchain• Ruby!• Static Ruby• Command Line based• Http://rubymotion.com

Why RubyMotion?Feature Objective-C RubyMotion

Memory Mgmt. Manual or ARC Automatically Managed

Editor Generally XCode Any editor you’d like

Build system XCode Command Line (Rake)

Language Objective-C Ruby ;)

Product Native iOS App Native iOS App

Lib Systems Cocoa Pods, TestFlight Cocoa Pods, TestFlight, MotionGems

Code example [[UIAlertView alloc] init] UIAlertView.alloc.init

Considerations• Commercial, $199.99• Require• *Eval

Getting Started.1. Motion create <app name>2. Edit3. Simulate

The Rakefile Explained• Build System.• Project Management

• 3rd Party Libraries, e.g. Salesforce Mobile iOS SDK• System frameworks and libraries• Distribution details• Name etc.

Obj-c to Ruby• “THIS”.to_lower()• application(application, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions)

• Translation• Obj-c: [[Obj StaticMethod] Param1:value1 Param2:Value2];• RubyMotion: Obj.StaticMethod.Param1(value1, Param2:Value2)

Demo App and Code Walkthrough

Additional Resources• http://rubymotion-tutorial.com/• http://rubymotion-wrappers.com/

• Esp. Bubblewrap and Sugarcube

• http://www.rubymotion.com/

Kevin Poorman

Technical Architect & Force.com MVP,

@CodeFriar

https://github.com/noeticpenguin/DfD

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