Javaseruby: Lightweight Framework for iOS application development using Ruby

This project was initiated by Yuichiro MASUI, which is used by Appcelerator. Appcelerator is a company that provides a mobile platform development framework. Its Titanium development framework allows developers to develop mobile applications in familiar languages.

MobiRuby is built based on mruby (a lightweight Ruby language implementation that can run Ruby code in interpreted mode and run it in a virtual machine. Yuichiro MASUI hopes to use this framework to enable Ruby to develop mobile applications instead of the Objective-C/Java language, just like Lua or Mono.

Currently, this project has only one sample code and Yuichiro said that the first version will be released in the next few months and will be based on the Apache 2.0 license agreement.

MobiRuby example:

Ruby code:

 
 

  
  
# UIAlertView demo  
  
  
def _S(str)  
  
  
    NSString._stringWithUTF8String(str)  
  
  
end 
  
  
class MyAlertView < Mobi::Cocoa::UIAlertView  
  
  
    define :void, :didPresentAlertView, :id do 
  
  
        p "MyAlertView::didPresentAlertView" 
  
  
    end 
  
  
    define :void, :alertView, :id, :clickedButtonAtIndex, :int do |me, index|  
  
  
        if index == 1  
  
  
            app = UIApplication._sharedApplication  
  
  
            url = NSURL._URLWithString(_S("http://mobiruby.org"))  
  
  
            app._openURL url  
  
  
        end 
  
  
    end 
  
  
end 
  
  
alert = MyAlertView._alloc.  
  
  
    _initWithTitle _S("Hello"),  
  
  
    :message, _S("I'm MobiRuby"),  
  
  
    :delegate, nil,  
  
  
    :cancelButtonTitle, _S("I know!"),  
  
  
    :otherButtonTitles, _S("What's?"), nil 
 
 

Running result: