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RubyMotion build system is now open source

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Re: RubyMotion build system is now open source

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Post by rjsamson »

Glad to see Laurent open sourcing this piece - hopefully it will lead to even deeper community involvement. In the few short weeks since it was released, RubyMotion already has a really impressive community behind it and I'm excited to see what the future holds.

Re: RubyMotion build system is now open source

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Post by breckinloggins »

I would love to see RubyMotion find a way to open-source its entire stack and still be able to monetize.

Ideas:

- Only charge a license fee if you intend to publish to the app store. True, this would be hard to check, but I think it would let the ecosystem flourish

- Give away the platform, sell premium documentation, screencasts, books, etc. (Although I can't see this generating enough revenue. Maybe when combined with some other approach?)

- Make one kick-ass IDE that's leaps and bounds better than XCode (including a better interface builder). Sell that. I favor this idea :)

Re: RubyMotion build system is now open source

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Post by adelevie »

breckinloggins wrote: post #3

I would love to see RubyMotion find a way to open-source its entire stack and still be able to monetize. Ideas: - Only charge a license fee if you intend to publish to the app store. True, this would be hard to check, but I think it would let the ecosystem flourish - Give away the platform, sell premium documentation, screencasts, books, etc. (Although I can't see this generating enough revenue. Maybe when combined w…

Laurent Sansonetti (creator of RM) was on the Ruby Rogues podcast (http://rubyrogues.com/055-rr-rubymotion-with-laurent-sansone...) and made a compelling case for the current pricing scheme. I won't paraphrase Laurent, but if you're interested, listen for yourself.

Re: RubyMotion build system is now open source

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Post by pjmlp »

tar wrote: post #6
onlyup wrote: post #5

Nice, I had not heard of RubyMotion. How does it work? Is there anything similar for Android?

Have you tried Ruboto ( http://ruboto.org/ ) ?

This is not the same, because RubyMotion compiles directly to native code.

The best would be to have something that could make use of Android's NDK.

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