This is exciting news for the RubyMotion community, Android is huge. The 30 day trial is big too and will help RM grow. The new website is great.
RubyMotion news has been slow lately, especially around the holidays. However there are a few exciting things coming soon to the RubyMotion community. One I can’t tell you about, I’m sorry. The other is a new gem that is a group collaboration.
Many authors of popular RubyMotion gems have teamed up to create something new and special. We’re still working on the basic features of the new gem so I can’t announce it today, perhaps in a few weeks. It’s pretty cool, stay tuned.
If you missed the last issue, you can find it here: issue #49.
Happy coding, Todd Werth (@twerth)
December 3rd, 2014 | blog post | by Nicky Hajal
“How I Built My First Native OSX App in Just 6 Weeks Using RubyMotion”
December 2nd, 2014 | video | by PhraseApp
“Translating RubyMotion Apps with PhraseApp”
December 2nd, 2014 | screencast | by Jack Watson-Hamblin
“RubyMotion for Rails Developers: Auto-Layout (part 2)”
December 1st, 2014 | new gem | by Shirk
“motion-crescentia – RubyMotion wrapper for the Calabash BDD framework”
November 24th, 2014 | screencast | by Jack Watson-Hamblin
“RubyMotion for Rails Developers: Auto-Layout (part 1)”
November 19th, 2014 | new gem | by Ryan Linton
“medic – A RubyMotion wrapper for HealthKit”
November 18th, 2014 | blog post | by Jamon Holmgren
“ProMotion 2.1.0 Released – Notable Changes”
November 18th, 2014 | blog post | by Gavin Morrice
“RubyMotion Tutorial for Beginners: Part 2”
November 18th, 2014 | blog post | by Gavin Morrice
“RubyMotion Tutorial for Beginners: Part 1”
November 17th, 2014 | blog post | by Sam Bauch
“Making Fabric Play Nice with RubyMotion”
November 14th, 2014 | blog post | by Jamon Holmgren
“Annoying iOS issues: ApplicationVerification Failed”
November 13th, 2014 | blog post | by Roel Bondoc
“Rubymotion and Apple TestFlight”
Recently I was laying out a design with grid with RMQ’s online grid playground. The ability to easily have each view on the grid take on a separate color, really helps with the contrast of juxtaposed views. If you find yourself in a similar situation with an actual app, the common way was to (usually from the REPL) run:
rmq(UIView).style { |st| st.background_color = rmq.color.random }
That’s quite a line of code! We do this often enough for it to merit a nice shortcut. Currently in RMQ edge, and in RMQ 1.0, you can easily contrast your view with:
rmq(UIView).debug.colorize
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