0 Lessons learned from building <a href="http://www.homemarks.com">HomeMarks</a> native iPhone application to synchronize Core Data with a RESTful backend built using rails 3.0.0.pre. <a href="http://metaskills.net/2010/2/12/synchronizing-core-data-with-rails-3-0-0-pre">This covers a previous design methodology called the AJAX head pattern which decouples rails applications from the views they present which allowed an easy API foundation for the iPhone application and data sync methods.</a> 2010-02-12T03:08:41+00:00 false 3440 2010-02-12T03:08:41+00:00 150 5 Sorry, it's just humor, but <a href="http://no.gd/macruby.gif">what if MacRuby 1.0 were the "one more thing"</a> during Steve's tablet keynote? More seriously, native iPhone apps powered by MacRuby would rule, so even GC on the iPhone would be a great addition in the next firmware release. 2010-01-26T02:37:06+00:00 false 3333 2010-01-26T02:37:06+00:00 5 0 I've added HTML5 form helpers to <a href="http://github.com/stephencelis/rerails/tree/2-3-stable">my gem of Rails patches</a>, giving you, for example, <code>email_field_tag</code> and <code>email_field</code>, which are <a href="http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html">already very helpful for the iPhone, Safari, and Opera</a>. 2010-01-03T17:40:20+00:00 false 3208 2010-01-03T19:22:30+00:00 32 0 I just launched <a href="http://mwhuss.com/2009/12/26/nezumi-the-iphone-app-to-for-heroku" rel="nofollow" >Nezumi</a> which allows you to administer your Ruby apps on Heroku from your iPhone. It can be found in the <a href="itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nezumi/id346715875?mt=8" rel="nofollow" >App Store</a>. 2009-12-27T02:29:03+00:00 false 3190 2009-12-27T02:29:03+00:00 1134 1 Long overdue, the <a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/">redesign of Ruby Inside is live!</a> There's now a search function, featured posts, an extended "popular Ruby links today" section (though to be improved further), an <em>iPhone stylesheet</em>, and a bunch of other fun. <a href="http://www.railsinside.com/">Rails Inside</a> has picked up a new design too in a more controversial purple colorway.. 2009-09-30T03:57:10+00:00 false 2820 2009-09-30T03:57:10+00:00 5 0 The Rails gem to help make sending push notifications to iPhones has been update to version <a href="http://www.metabates.com/2009/07/31/apn-on-rails-0-3-0-released">0.3.0</a>. This version brings with it support for the Apple Feedback service. 2009-08-01T04:54:08+00:00 false 2573 2009-08-01T04:54:08+00:00 185 undees 0 <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/undees/iphone-meets-cucumber" rel="nofollow" >Testing iPhone apps</a> with Ruby and Cucumber. 2009-08-01T04:53:53+00:00 false 2572 2009-08-01T04:53:53+00:00 0 <a href="http://www.metabates.com/2009/07/24/apple-push-notifications-on-rails/">Apple Push Notifications on Rails</a> - APN on Rails is a Ruby on Rails gem that allows you to easily add Apple Push Notification (iPhone) support to your Rails application. 2009-07-25T02:42:47+00:00 true 2542 2009-07-28T23:53:31+00:00 185 0 A talk about Cucumber which covers what Cucumber is, why to use use it and how to use it. Has an example of using Cucumber to test a IPhone application. <a href="http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/futureruby-talk-cucumbered.html">Cucumbered</a> 2009-07-20T15:53:16+00:00 false 2529 2009-07-20T15:53:16+00:00 515 4 Are you a mad hacker? Do you have crazy algorithm cracking skills? Show us! We just launched a sweet programming contest, and if you're the hardcore hacker we know you are, you should get in on it -- so <a href="http://bit.ly/kPZ2b">check it out</a> and get to work! :D 2009-07-14T17:22:32+00:00 false 2500 2009-07-14T17:22:32+00:00 590 0 On the 15th of May we organized the <a href="http://rubyonosx.com/">Ruby on OS X conference</a> in Amsterdam, which, as the name indicates, focussed on building Ruby applications on Mac OS X. As of today all talks are available in either 720p HD or a lower resolution iPhone compatible M4V. <a href="http://www.fngtps.com/2009/06/ruby-on-os-x-conference-videos">http://www.fngtps.com/2009/06/ruby-on-os-x-conference-videos</a> - Enjoy! 2009-06-09T10:12:02+00:00 false 2356 2009-06-09T17:21:10+00:00 532 Georges Melies 1 <a href="http://merbist.com/2009/05/27/macruby-changing-the-ruby-ecosystem/" rel="nofollow" >In his latest blog post</a> Matt Aimonetti explains why MacRuby is an important project for the Ruby community as a whole. He also explains few things about MacRuby (potential Linux version, iPhone compilation available with the next version, AOT compilation, performance boost etc..) 2009-05-28T01:14:37+00:00 true 2306 2009-06-03T15:08:53+00:00 1 <a href="http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/07/04/unit-testing-iphone-apps-with-ruby-rbiphonetest/">rbiphonetest</a> had a very nasty/critical bug where you couldn't develop/test Objective-C classes that were dependent upon each other. Individual projects that used rbiphonetest solved this problem, but only now has the solution be refactored back into the rbiphonetest generator. Yay! The internals of the rbiphonetest gem are now covered by cucumber scenarios too so it will be much easier to add features with confidence. ALSO: Ben Scofield wrote an article about rbiphonetest in edition 2 of <a href="http://therubyist.com">The Rubyist</a> (free in PDF form) 2009-03-17T12:13:26+00:00 false 1907 2009-03-18T02:43:08+00:00 258 3 Sorry, it's all in Japanese and it's all a bit voo-doo like to me, but there's some interesting code and slides amongst it. Takuma Mori has been <a href="http://d.hatena.ne.jp/takuma104/20090225/1235584788">working on running Ruby apps on the iPhone</a> and <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/takuma104/rubyrubycocoa-for-iphone-uicoderz4">this presentation</a> has some interesting slides. It seems quite a few steps beyond <a href="http://www.mobileorchard.com/rhodes-a-tool-to-bring-ruby-apps-to-the-iphone/">Rhodes</a> though is extremely experimental I gather.. <b>Update: <a href="http://wiki.github.com/takuma104/iphone-rubycocoa">Some info in English.</a></b> 2009-02-27T04:22:49+00:00 false 1797 2009-02-27T16:26:44+00:00 5 0 My latest release is <a href="http://www.iphoneflow.com/">iPhoneFlow</a> - it's just like RubyFlow, but for iPhone developers. If iPhone development is your schtick, come join us. It's still early so you could get on top of the leaderboard still ;-) 2009-02-12T18:56:23+00:00 false 1700 2009-02-12T18:56:23+00:00 5 0 <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=301551233&mt=8">Ruby API Lookup</a> has just released. It allows you to easily browse or search the Ruby Core and Ruby Standard Library RDoc documentation on your iPhone or iPod touch. 2009-01-15T10:30:14+00:00 false 1525 2009-01-15T10:30:14+00:00 599 Koneko 0 There's an article over at <a href="http://www.technetra.com/2009/01/03/building-a-remote-message-monitor-for-the-iphone/" rel="nofollow" >Technetra</a> demonstrating how to use Sinatra, Ruby and other tools to drive a mobile client like the iPhone, and integrate it with a live data source. The client side is JavaScript and CSS customized for iPhone's Safari (but playable for testing on a desktop browser like Firefox). The server side is all Ruby and Sinatra. Sinatra sings a simple but complete Web interface tune while core Ruby plays a drum beat with the live data feed -- in this case the <a href="http://www.bluez.org/" rel="nofollow" >Bluez</a> D-BUS message stream on Linux. The article is also notable because it's presents a good example of how to write a module on top of <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/dbus-ruby" rel="nofollow" >ruby-dbus</a> to monitor Linux's Bluetooth subsystem. 2009-01-09T00:09:40+00:00 false 1485 2009-01-09T00:09:40+00:00 3 Ruby on Rails documentation formatted for the iPhone <a href="http://pocketrails.com/">http://pocketrails.com/</a> 2008-12-23T14:43:54+00:00 false 1417 2008-12-23T17:41:45+00:00 563 alex 2 <a href="http://www.vestaldesign.com/design/ruby-ref/" rel="nofollow" >RubyRef</a>'s a cool iPhone app which lets you see all of Ruby's documentation and star the classes/methods you use most! 2008-12-23T00:42:39+00:00 false 1410 2008-12-23T00:42:39+00:00 Jonathan 0 I'm very proud to announce that my ruby on rails website - <a href="http://www.roadtrippr.com" rel="nofollow" >roadtrippr.com</a> has relaunched it's own iPhone webapp. Built using Ruby on Rails, it allows people to add their favorite local road trip destinations, and search for new places to visit when out on the road. You can <a href="http://roadtrippr.com/articles/84" rel="nofollow" >read all about it here</a>, and check out some screenshots. 2008-12-20T01:14:25+00:00 false 1397 2008-12-20T01:14:25+00:00 murphee 0 <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/12/rhodes-iphone-winmobile-rim">Rhodes by Rhomobile</a> is a new solution for writing Ruby client applications on the iPhone, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry. The apps have access to GPS, Accelerometer, etc. To be completely cross platform, the GUI is defined using regular HTML, with special tags for the advanced features (GPS,...). 2008-12-17T02:18:30+00:00 false 1370 2008-12-17T02:52:53+00:00 3 <b>Why you're drawn to mobile development:</b> Rubyists are famous for trying new things, whether it's Erlang, Haskell, Amazon's cloud services, etc. Jon Dahl of RailsSpikes looks at <a href="http://railspikes.com/2008/10/23/mobile-development">why we're drawn to mobile development</a> and mentions prominent Rails developer Hampton Catlin's successful iPhone app. Perhaps this post will encourage you to get some iPhone on your résumé? :) 2008-10-23T20:26:36+00:00 false 1080 2008-10-23T20:26:54+00:00 5 0 The <a href="http://gravityblast.com/2008/10/09/radiant-iphone-extension-0-0-1/">Radiant iPhone extension</a> adds an iphone tailored ui to Radiant CMS. 2008-10-09T10:52:31+00:00 false 1009 2008-10-09T10:52:31+00:00 181 Noel Rappin 0 The rails_iui plugin has been improved and is now <a href="http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/09/tankengine-new-plugin-for-rails-iphone-development/" rel="nofollow" >TankEngine</a> 2008-09-26T18:18:42+00:00 false 961 2008-09-26T18:18:42+00:00 0 The <a href="http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/">iPhone Configuration Web Utility</a> uses Rails. 2008-07-24T12:59:47+00:00 false 679 2008-07-25T06:27:46+00:00 340 1 <a href="http://intridea.com/2008/7/21/mobilize-your-rails-application-with-mobile-fu">Mobile Fu</a> is a new Rails plugin that makes it really easy to support a variety of <i>non-iPhone</i> mobile devices in your Rails application, including device-specific CSS targeting. 2008-07-21T16:31:58+00:00 false 658 2008-07-21T16:31:58+00:00 80 0 <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-iphoneruby3/">Part 3</a> of Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails has been posted. It covers panels, forms, and capturing when the user turns the phone. Also see <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-iphoneruby1/">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-iphoneruby2/">Part 2</a>. 2008-07-16T14:22:35+00:00 false 634 2008-07-16T14:22:35+00:00 219 0 Part 2 of the article <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-iphoneruby2/">Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails</a> is available. This article discusses the rails_iui plugin. 2008-07-08T16:36:41+00:00 false 603 2008-07-08T16:36:41+00:00 219