RUBICON

Rubicon is a set of classes, structures, enums, extensions, tools, and utilities to make Swift development easier, cleaner, and less verbose.

API Documentation

Documentation of the API can be found here: Rubion API

Why the name Rubicon?

To cross the Rubicon is a metaphor which means to take an irrevocable step that commits one to a specific course. When Julius Caesar was about to cross the tiny Rubicon River in 49 B.C.E., he quoted from a play by Menander to say "anerriphtho kybos!" or "let the die be cast" in Greek.

Gill, N.S. "Meaning Behind the Phrase to Cross the Rubicon." ThoughtCo, Aug. 27, 2020, thoughtco.com/meaning-cross-the-rubicon-117548.

Swifty Stuff

Here's just a few of the places where I've taken advantage of Swift's features.

NSRecursiveLock -> RecursiveLock

Even though they've included a version of NSRecursiveLock in the open source version of Swift I still get nervous that one day all the NS* classes will suddenly disappear. So I created a wrapper around NSRecursiveLock called simply "RecursiveLock". That way if I suddenly have to recreate it at least I won't have to rename it.

Also as part of RecursiveLock I've create a method called:

So that rather than the standard design pattern of:

We can now just do this:

It will even allow returned values and throws.

NSCondition -> Conditional

For the same reasons as above I created a wrapper around NSCondition called simply "Conditional".

Also, along with the "withLock(_:)" method above, I've also included a new method called:

This method takes two enclosures. One to test the condition and the other to execute once the condition is met.

So instead of saying:

You can now simply say this:

So much more clear!

Also, the version of "withLock(_:)" in Conditional calls "signal()" right before it calls "unlock()".