RubyMotion

RubyMotion is an IDE of the Ruby programming language that supports iOS, OS X and Android. RubyMotion is a commercial product created by Laurent Sansonetti for HipByte^[1] and is based on MacRuby for OS X. RubyMotion adapted and extended MacRuby to work on platforms beyond OS X.^[1]

RubyMotion

Developer(s)	HipByte
Written in	C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Ruby
Operating system	Mac OS X, iOS, Android
Type	Ruby programming language runtime and compiler
License	Proprietary EULA
Website	www.rubymotion.com

RubyMotion apps execute in an iOS simulator alongside a read-eval-print loop (REPL) for interactive inspection and modification.^[2] 3rd-party Objective-C libraries can be included in a RubyMotion project, either manually or by using a package manager such as CocoaPods. Programs are statically compiled into machine code by use of Rake as its build and execution tool.^[2]

RubyMotion projects can be developed with any text editor. The RubyMine IDE provides support for the RubyMotion toolchain, such as code-completion and visual debugging.^[3]

As of version 2.0, RubyMotion now supports the development of applications for OS X in addition to iOS.^[4] Android support was added in version 3.0.^[5]

Examples of applications built in RubyMotion include 37signals's Basecamp for iPhone,^[6] the Bandcamp iPhone app,^[7] and A Dark Room for iOS.^[8]

See also

• mruby - another minimal Ruby implementation, targeted at embedded devices, that could be compiled to native code