Neither Swift or Objective-C support annotations at the compiler-level, which in languages like Java and C# are used by developers to generate some boilerplate for the compiler. This greatly reduces the amount of trivial boilerplate code that has to be written by the developer.
One particularly obnoxious bit of boilerplate on the Apple stack is the creation of classes that correspond to your Core Data model. Even if you're not using Core Data, there's likely a lot of boilerplate that you either copy across model files or copy and make small tweaks to.
The solution to this is normally Mogenerator, and that should definitely be your first port of call. Mogenerator's been battle tested and used in enterprise-scale production apps before, and if it does everything you need, you should keep using it.
That said, this project aims to exceed Mogenerator in the following ways:
- It will not get bogged down by backwards compatibility concerns.
- Mogenerator still targets Mac OS X 10.6, an operating system released more than 5 years ago.
- The Mogenerator source code relies on several unmaintained dependencies, and as a result is not written in Modern Objective-C or Automatic Reference Counting. This makes community contributions difficult.
- RubyGens will always require the same OS X that the latest Xcode does.
- It will use a modern templating engine which also embeds a complete scripting
language.
- This engine is mruby-merb and the scripting language is mruby.
- This should encourage users to write their own templates, just using the provided one as a base.
- Ruby is a very common and friendly scripting language, and has a thriving community online. Compare this to Mogenerator's positively ancient template system MiscMergeKit.
- It will put more customisation options in the hands of template writers and users without the need to submit patches to RubyGens, such as determining what the output files are.
Install Homebrew.
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"Install libFFI. Sorry, the one that ships with Xcode is too old.
brew install libffiClone repo with submodules.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/chatspry/rubygens.gitThe app should now compile in Xcode. Use the workspace, not the xcodeproj, since this project uses CocoaPods.
cd rubygens
open RubyGens.xcworkspace