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Show HN: Test Drive The RubyMotion Console From Your Browser
- adriand 15y agoThat is just ridiculously awesome. How on earth does this work?
- username3 15y agohttps://www.pieceable.com/docs#how-it-works https://www.pieceable.com/docs#how-it-works
- fpotter 15y agoGlad 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 https://gist.github.com/2624774
- robotmay 15y agoWell talk about an excellent way to show off your platform. It's really smooth, nice work.
- micheljansen 15y agoThis 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.
- jjohn 15y agoawesome !!!
- rjsamson 15y agoVery 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.
- RegEx 15y agoStudents 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/ http://www.rubymotion.com/support/
- octopus 15y agoYep, 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.
- cmelbye 15y agoI've had the same experience with emailing about the education discount. Has anyone heard back yet?
- diemer 15y agoSame 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.
- diemer 15y agoOh, 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!"
- RegEx 15y agoThanks for following up here.
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- gfodor 15y agowhoa this is a hell of a demo. hats off!
- jQueryIsAwesome 15y agoHTML5 comes to your mind? Nope, just good old Flash for the news feed and HTML tables for the console.