RubyMotion-Pixate

Pixate gem for RubyMotion.

Requirements

• RubyMotion 1.0 or greater (see http://www.rubymotion.com).

Setup

1. Download the Pixate Framework package from http://www.pixate.com/ and copy the PXEngine.framework folder into vendor directory (or alternatively just create a symbolic link). Create the vendor directory if it does not exist. You should have something like this.

$ ls vendor/PXEngine.framework
/Headers/   PXEngine   Resources/ Versions/

2. Edit the Rakefile of your RubyMotion project and add the following require lines.

require 'rubygems'
require 'motion-pixate'

3. Still in the Rakefile, set up the user, key and framework variables in your application configuration block.

Motion::Project::App.setup do |app|
  # ...
  app.pixate.user = 'USER ID'
  app.pixate.key  = 'KEY CODE'
  app.pixate.framework = 'vendor/PXEngine.framework'
end

4. Create the default.css in resources directory.

Note: To install the motion-pixate gem, see the RubyGems site.

Usage

Pixate gem supports Sass to generate the stylesheet. Create the sass directory and default.scss with the rake pixate:init command. Then, rake pixate:sass command generates the stylesheet from default.scss.

You could specify the Sass output style through style environment variable. For example,

$ rake pixate:sass style=compressed

You could use nested, expanded, compact and compressed as output style.

Pixate gem provides "style" method in REPL. You could change the stylesheet at the moment in REPL. For example,

(main)> style "button { color : blue; }"
(main)> style "button { background-color: red; border-radius: 20pt; }"