“Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 2: Displaying iPhone content to the client” Also up on IBM Developerworks

Noel Rappin, Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 11:02 pm

It's actually a double-article day for Pathfinder on IBM developerWorks, as part two of my series on developing iPhone web applications in Rails was also posted today.

For this article, you use a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript library called iUI to handle iPhone content. The iUI library has CSS classes that match Apple's human-interface guidelines for iPhone, as well as JavaScript to handle sideswipes that mimic the interface of the native iPhone OS applications. However, you aren't always going to want to use iUI in your application, so I'll also discuss some of the actual CSS and JavaScript needed to handle those common elements. In keeping with good Rails practice, I factored the HTML for common iUI patterns to Ruby helper methods. These methods are bundled in a Rails plug-in you can download and add to any Rails application.

Part 1 went up a week ago. Part 3 should be up in a couple of weeks.

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1. “Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 3: Developing advanced views for iPhone” now available on IBM Developerworks
2. Rails and iPhone article online at IBM developerWorks
3. Rails Development for iPhone with rails_iui
4. TankEngine: New plugin for Rails iPhone Development
5. jRails: Ruby on Rails with the Prototype guts ripped out

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