Formotion

Dev tools

ui form library

SHOW HN2012

Formotion

Painless, productive views on iOS with Formotion for RubyMotion

clayallsopp.github.com

#rubymotion#ios forms#ruby ios#formotion

49points
13comments
#481of 1,677 in 2012
Top 29%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.

Idea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Makes RubyMotion more attractive for iOS developers

    From 1 comment
    • This is one of those things that makes Rubymotion am increasingly attractive prospect for me as an iOS developer. I wouldn't be ready to move off my familiar Objective-C stack…
      _frog on HN
  • Insanely awesome

    From 1 comment

Objections

  • Landing page does not explain what it is or what problem it solves

    From 2 comments
    • I looked at page and could not figure out what it is. Is this a server-side html generator? And AJAX library? A native iOS control library? I guess I will never know.
      DenisM on HN
    • Perhaps I did not make myself clear, so let me try again: The posted article does nothing to describe what it is about to an average person who will wander into it. Most people…
      DenisM on HN
  • Code looks similar to existing Objective-C form code

    From 1 comment
    • > This is one of those things that makes Rubymotion am increasingly attractive prospect for me as an iOS developer. I've written form-creation and model-syncing code that looks…
      flatline3 on HN

Requests

  • Adapt for RhoMobile Ruby iOS development

    From 1 comment
    • How hard would it be to adapt this for Ruby written for iOS using RhoMobile? I'm looking into whether to start learning RubyMotion vs. RhoMobile, and don't know much about either…
      poblano on HN

Questions

  • How well does RubyMotion support TDD and testing

    From 1 comment
    • This is one of those things that makes Rubymotion am increasingly attractive prospect for me as an iOS developer. I wouldn't be ready to move off my familiar Objective-C stack…
      _frog on HN

Alternatives named

  • RhoMobile

    From 1 comment
    • How hard would it be to adapt this for Ruby written for iOS using RhoMobile? I'm looking into whether to start learning RubyMotion vs. RhoMobile, and don't know much about either…
      poblano on HN
  • Objective-C testing clones such as Rspec-style frameworks

    From 1 comment
    • This is one of those things that makes Rubymotion am increasingly attractive prospect for me as an iOS developer. I wouldn't be ready to move off my familiar Objective-C stack…
      _frog on HN

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