iOS Eye for the Rails Guy

by evanlight on Sep 12, 2010

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Ruby developers tend to be technology-curious. We love to explore. We also, often, find ourselves writing back ends to iPhone/iOS front ends. However, Rails and iOS have more in common than you may know. I'll demonstrate how you can leverage your existing Rails skills to learn how to develop for iOS.

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iOS Eye for the Rails Guy — Presentation Transcript

A little on language

Ye Olde Rails golden path

iPhone golden path

iPad golden path

Rails 3 generated code ➜ rails g scaffold blog blogs_controller: 83 lines migration: 12 lines model: 2 lines

iPad generated code: Split View-based app RootViewController.m: 317 lines DetailViewController.m: 160 lines 2 HUGE .xib (XML) files: DON’T ASK

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Boogeymen

Testing It REALLY SUCKS on iOS!!!!

Text http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-mcxcode/becoming-productive-in-xcode

http://stackoverﬂow.com

Libraries you should look at • TouchXML • TouchJSON • ASIHTTPRequest • Facebook three20

Advice • Always lead your inline strings with a @ • Do read about UIView • Do not use Interface Builder • NSLog is your friend

iOS Eye for the Rails Guy

by evanlight on Sep 12, 2010

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