Comments on: Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest

By: iPhone Unit? TDD? « Can’t see nothing but the source code

iPhone Unit? TDD? « Can’t see nothing but the source code — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:33:51 +0000

[...] God for people like Dr Nic. I managed to test drive a simple calculator project on the iPhone using his screencast. Just a quick note if you don’t come from the Ruby camp, (you know, like you spend most of [...]

By: Rusty Zarse

Rusty Zarse — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:28:15 +0000

Thanks for the gem, Dr Nic!
I am new to mac development, coming (screaming) from a Windows world. I have been slowly dabbling in Ruby and am quite pleased for this business driving opportunity to finally pursue it seriously.

Finally, I believe “keep your pants on” is derived from “don’t get excited” rather than “don’t get upset” which makes more sense should you imply that before you said topic phrase, we were all so excited we were about to take our pants off. I’ll let you ‘infer’ for what purpose….

By: stefan

stefan — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:07:22 +0000

Hi,

I really like your testframework!

Just a quick note:

It should be [calculator relase]; instead of [calculator dealloc]; in
- (void) dealloc;

Cheers,
Stefan

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:06:14 +0000

Awesome, I look forward to trying it out today at the dev camp.

(PS: you may want to add this dependency to the gemspec: rubigen)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:05:11 +0000

thats pretty cool, thanks for the hint

By: steve longdo

steve longdo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:28:07 +0000

You can download the SDK (free signup to Apple iPhone Development program: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/ ) and compile against the UIKit and CocoaTouch libs. It would be awesome to get Ruby code to simulate gestures, etc.

By: video on an iphone

video on an iphone — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:05:40 +0000

[...] hmmm well?? and finally, its the only high-level language you can use to write iphone apps.http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/07/04/unit-testing-iphone-apps-with-ruby-rbiphonetest/macosxhints.com - Watch slow motion video on the iPhone and iPod touch… either on YouTube or your [...]

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Nome do Jogo » Artigo » Rails Podcast Brasil - Epis�dio 23 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:29:13 +0000

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By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:50:32 +0000

@peter - it can definitely be used for mac cocoa development too (I think mention it a couple times to cover my bases). I didn’t figure too many people would use it for that, since with Cocoa development you have the option to write the whole app in RubyCocoa or in the future, MacRuby.

Nonetheless, Aaron VonderHaar has used it for some projects (http://groups.google.com/group/rbiphonetest/msg/81a21d5d304fb239) and has some thoughts on mocking NSObject subclasses.

If lots of people use it for Cocoa dev then we can talk about changing the project name

By: Peter Jaros

Peter Jaros — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:29:49 +0000

Awesome! I was preparing to do the exact same thing after WWDC, but I ran into some snags. I’m glad I didn’t duplicate your efforts!

Quick question, though: what does this have to do with the iPhone in particular? Aren’t you just unit testing Obj-C classes in Ruby? I mean, it’s great that it *does* work for iPhone development, but this would be great for desktop Cocoa development too.