A DSL for UIKit for RubyMotion.

• Simpler view declaration syntax
• UIView helper methods
• View tagging with string

The lazy and dirty way is to copy the source files into your own project.

Or refer to the blog post Using 3rd Party Ruby Library in RubyMotion.

def viewDidLoad
  view.setup do
    label width: 200, height: 20, text: "Choose your lucky word", color: UIColor.darkGrayColor
    image_view top: 50, left: 50, image:UIImage.imageName("sample.jpg")
  end
end

Everything inside setup block will be added to the view automatically.

Hash parameters works only on KVC-compliant properties. To configure view object in more detail, use a block

def viewDidLoad
  view.setup do
    button do |btn|
      btn.setTitle("Submit" forState: UIControlStateNormal)
    end
  end
end

Currently support 4 property helpers (more in the future)

• top
• left
• width
• height

• UIButton via button
• UIDatePicker via date_picker
• UIImageView via image_view
• UILabel via label
• UIPageControl via page_control
• UIPickerView via picker_view
• UIProgressView via progress_view
• UIScrollView via scroll_view
• UISearchBar via search_bar
• UISegmentedControl via segmented_control
• UISlider via slider
• UIStepper via stepper
• UISwitch via swtich
• UITabBar via tab_bar
• UITableView via table_view
• UITableViewCell via table_view_cell
• UITextField via text_field
• UITextView via text_view
• UIToolbar via toolbar
• UIWebView via web_view

No need to declare ivar, no need to use integer tag, just name your view and access it by the name.

def viewDidLoad
  view.setup do
    label name: "price_label" # give a name to the label
  end
end

def someOtherMethod
  view.subview("price_label") # get the label
end