Comments on: RubyMotion brings serious Ruby development to the iOS world

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:05:56 +0000

Can you explain how MacRuby was modified to enable this? How is garbage collection handled/not handled?

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:46:29 +0000

In reply to john. No, but you can use MacRuby for that.

By: john

john — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:29:37 +0000

Will I be able to write Mac apps with rubymotion?

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:27:15 +0000

In reply to Michel Pigassou. RubyMotion is built on top of MacRuby. However you can't use MacRuby for developing iOS apps. Obviously, RubyMotion allows you to do that. In terms of code, knowing MacRuby would make you feel right at home.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:21:30 +0000

In reply to Hahahaha. Familiarity? Preference? I think it's great that there is an alternative that actually just works^TM.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:20:15 +0000

In reply to roger. Not quite. This compiles ruby code to machine code, much like Objective-C does.

By: TVD

TVD — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:33:10 +0000

Congratulations and Go get ’em!

By: Hahahaha

Hahahaha — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:31:05 +0000

> We do not believe that Xcode makes a good environment for … development in general).

Hilarious.

Why not just learn the right tool for the job instead of making Ruby fit every single task? You learn more that way.

By: Michel Pigassou

Michel Pigassou — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:34:35 +0000

What is the difference between this and an app coded with MacRuby?

By: roger

roger — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:35:49 +0000

So basically this compiles ruby code to objective C? It’s kind of like mirah?