Rhodes or Titanium for Rails app on iphone?

Question

Hi, I wanted to develop an application for iphone with Ruby. Is Rhodes or Titanium the best option? I need to integrate GPS and google maps

Answer 1

Rhodes is the only way to write a mobile application in Ruby. This cannot be done with titanium or any other structure. Rhodes (and PhoneGap, for that matter) emphasize written interfaces with HTML5 and style libraries such as jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch (but still, it is NOT a web application to create your own application). Titanium creates its own user interface abstractions and does not allow the use of such style libraries. We believe that using HTML5

Answer 2

If you want to write an iPhone application in Ruby, then Rhodes is as far as I know your only choice. I have made several applications with Titanium, and the only language (s) you can use is Javascript / Coffeescript (Coffeescript is compiled in JS). Titanium Ruby support is only for the desktop, as someone has already pointed out.

For features for Rhodes, check out http://docs.rhomobile.com/rhodes/device-caps . It looks like they have support for Geolocation and Native maps.

Answer 3

Rhodes seems to be the only Ruby solution, while Titanium offers support for Ruby / Python / PHP. Because of this, I would choose Rhodes. In addition, you should have access to all the functions from all the frameworks.