Chapter 1Creating a New App
It’s time to dive into RubyMotion. We will go over what we need to install, how to create a project, and how to run and debug our apps. That might sound like a lot, but I promise you’ll be surprised at just how fast we can get something up and running. Since we plan on moving fast, this book assumes you’re familiar with Ruby; we won’t be doing anything too tricky with the language, but you should be comfortable with the common syntax for things like blocks and instance variables.
RubyMotion 2 is a commercial product from HipByte and can be purchased from the RubyMotion website (http://rubymotion.com/). The RubyMotion tools work only on OS X 10.7 or newer, so make sure your operating system is up to date. When you ...
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