Ribs: Tree creation tool

[davidseek]

Hey guys.

First of all thanks for the open source.
Loved the tutorials. Very easy to understand.

Question tho.
I expect that your tool to create Tree is an intern thing?
Could you open source it? Or sell it? Or provide a link?

I'm using mind node,
but I prefer your way of handling the parent nesting.

[kovpas]

As far as I know, it's lucidchart + img-to-gif converter :)

[davidseek]

Sweet. It is lucidchart. Tried it out and got the desired results! Thank you!

[ermik]

What about the iOS debugger webapp that shows RIB's attached/detached?

[davidseek]

That would be epic to know.

[ermik]

@artman was using it for his Devoxx presentation:

The demo actually shows how shallow, compared to what one may assume thinking about 1 million lines of code, the Rider app state/RIB tree actually is. Everything is a plugin.

[sbarow]

I don't believe we have any plans to open-source the tool.
cc @rudro

[ermik]

Would be nice to officially float the idea and have it considered as a sleek DevTool complementary to the RIBs framework. If there is IP that is part of the tool that is an issue here — some sort of nod to the community, so that we could build our own, is required. It isn't that hard, is it?

[kovpas]

To be completely honest, the tool is very nice for presentation purposes, but I've never used it during development. There might be a use-case to catch memory leaks (i.e. RIBs are staying in memory, while they should be deallocated), but there's already a memory leak detector available in RIBs.

[ermik]

(Just one more observation before I surrender.) From a perspective of an experienced iOS engineer, let alone someone who is part of Uber organization — I can imagine — it is not terribly helpful to have this during dev. Especially if one is not working on the core tree, (e.g. creating plugins). If you consider someone just discovering RIBs with a desire to learn about clean, scalable architecture such visualizer would be very helpful. It delivers a novice RIB user with a helpful perspective on all of the boilerplate.

[kovpas]

That's a good point. Let's wait for @rudro or @artman to answer if there are any plans on open-sourcing the tool.

[artman]

We did want to, but currently don't have enough time to devote to this.

[srea]

@artman @ermik @rudro I published RIBs live visualizer. but it is rough...
https://github.com/srea/RIBsTreeViewerClient