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Introducing Live for RubyMotion

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Re: Introducing Live for RubyMotion

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Post by strags »

We had something similar quite a while ago at Naughty Dog, when working on the Jak and Daxter PS2 games. Our development environment was Emacs, and as well as having a REPL console in one of the buffers, you could position your cursor inside any function/method, hit CTRL/T, and have just that function compiled and updated on the target hardware, on the fly, with no restart required.

Iterative programming is especially suited for game development, where you want to rapidly experiment with tweaking parameters and behaviors without waiting for a full compile/link/download/restart.

Re: Introducing Live for RubyMotion

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Post by lux »

This is really cool!

I wonder if people are working on autocomplete packages for different IDEs/editors to help make RubyMotion smoother with those long method names (didn't see much googling it). IMO in combination with this, autocompletion would make RubyMotion a tremendously compelling option for iOS development.

Re: Introducing Live for RubyMotion

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Post by eddieroger »

lux wrote: post #5

This is really cool! I wonder if people are working on autocomplete packages for different IDEs/editors to help make RubyMotion smoother with those long method names (didn't see much googling it). IMO in combination with this, autocompletion would make RubyMotion a tremendously compelling option for iOS development.

I sure hope so. TextMate bundles seem the logical choice since Rubyists seem to love TM, and I do, too. That said, I'd switch IDEs if the library was good enough. I actively acknowledge I am taking advantage of Xcode's CodeSense when it comes to some of Apple's asininely long enums (UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator for instance).

Re: Introducing Live for RubyMotion

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Post by bora »

lux wrote: post #5

This is really cool! I wonder if people are working on autocomplete packages for different IDEs/editors to help make RubyMotion smoother with those long method names (didn't see much googling it). IMO in combination with this, autocompletion would make RubyMotion a tremendously compelling option for iOS development.

Have you guys seen this? Textmate bundle for auto-completion. https://github.com/libin/RubyMotion.tmbundle
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