BetterToolbar

No Ruby developer likes all those crazy constants thay Apple makes us try and remember, and creating a toolbar is full of that, plus extra crazy stuff that is basically just left over from the history of iOS. BetterToolbar helps you create toolbars and toolbar items in a more Ruby-esque way.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'better_toolbar'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install better_toolbar

Usage

In version 0.1.0, you can create a UIBarButtonItem using a nicer factory style (yes, factories make you think of Java, but the fact is factories are useful).

toolbar = UIToolbar.new
item = BetterToolbar::Item.create(title: "Item 1", target: the_target, action: 'method_on_the_target:')
toolbar.setItems([item], animated: false)

Full Toolbar

To create a complete toobar, you can specify defaults for the Item factory in the hash passed to BetterToolbar#create, and pass in everything else to the hashes in the items array.

toolbar = BetterToolbar.create({
  target: self,
  items: [
    { title: "Item 1", action: "item_one_pressed:" },
    { image: "sun", action: "sun_pressed:" },
    { title: "Item 3", target: different_target, action: "some_action:" }
  ]
})

That looks much nicer than what it would usually take to make a toolbar, and that's where it would be nice to get to.

Flexible Space

Coming soon will be the ability to add :flexible_space as an item on it's own so that you can put some flexible space in there, along with other features like custom classes etc.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Make sure your tests pass
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request