Formotion
Dev tools
ui form library
SHOW HN2012
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
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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
This is insanely awesome, thanks a lot!
tjarmain on HN
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 HNPerhaps 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