Show HN: Test Drive The RubyMotion Console From Your Browser(pieceable.com)
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Show HN: Test Drive The RubyMotion Console From Your Browser
https://www.pieceable.com/rubymotion-console
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That is just ridiculously awesome. How on earth does this work?
Glad you like it! We spent all weekend hacking away on this - really excited to show it to everyone.
Behind the scenes we're running iOS apps on Macs and streaming the screen to you - sort of like a remote-desktop connection into a running app. We've built up a bunch of infrastructure to do that for our main product.
To make the RubyMotion REPL magic happen, we looked at the how RubyMotion launcher worked. RubyMotion apps expose the REPL over a UNIX socket, and you can write expressions and read results from there. So, we connect into that.
If anyone is curious, here's a DTrace script for peeking at the traffic going over the RubyMotion REPL socket: https://gist.github.com/2624774
Behind the scenes we're running iOS apps on Macs and streaming the screen to you - sort of like a remote-desktop connection into a running app. We've built up a bunch of infrastructure to do that for our main product.
To make the RubyMotion REPL magic happen, we looked at the how RubyMotion launcher worked. RubyMotion apps expose the REPL over a UNIX socket, and you can write expressions and read results from there. So, we connect into that.
If anyone is curious, here's a DTrace script for peeking at the traffic going over the RubyMotion REPL socket: https://gist.github.com/2624774
Well talk about an excellent way to show off your platform. It's really smooth, nice work.
This is actually really cool for other things than RubyMotion. The biggest drawback of having to pay for frameworks and development toolkits is that you cannot easily test drive them (the reason I am a fan of the free-for-personal GPL/BSD + commercial license model). This potentially takes away some of those concerns.
Students of HN - Looks like RubyMotion has a student discount! [0]
> I am a large company or a student. Do you offer site licenses or educational discounts? Yes. Contact us and we can work something out.
[0]: http://www.rubymotion.com/support/
> I am a large company or a student. Do you offer site licenses or educational discounts? Yes. Contact us and we can work something out.
[0]: http://www.rubymotion.com/support/
Yep, I have a friend that has send them an email (using his uni email address) for a few days now. Apparently no answer ... Hope they are gona improve the feedback.
On the other hand on RubyMotion Google's group you can get an answer directly from Laurent Sansonetti if you have questions.
On the other hand on RubyMotion Google's group you can get an answer directly from Laurent Sansonetti if you have questions.
I've had the same experience with emailing about the education discount. Has anyone heard back yet?
Oh, news on this actually. They just posted this on their blog about a half hour ago:
Educational Licenses
We have had many inquiries for educational licenses. We are extremely excited that students are being drawn to RubyMotion.
"If you sent us a request for an educational license, please accept our apologies for the late response. We will start contacting you early next week. Your emails have not been lost!"
Educational Licenses
We have had many inquiries for educational licenses. We are extremely excited that students are being drawn to RubyMotion.
"If you sent us a request for an educational license, please accept our apologies for the late response. We will start contacting you early next week. Your emails have not been lost!"
Same here. I emailed him the day it was announced and haven't heard back yet either. I've also tweeted them and only heard silence back.
Very cool! What a great way to show off the RubyMotion REPL. Maybe this will encourage some folks to buy a license who were on the fence about it.
whoa this is a hell of a demo. hats off!
awesome !!!
HTML5 comes to your mind? Nope, just good old Flash for the news feed and HTML tables for the console.