Get Your iPhone and Rails Apps Talkin'

Posted by ryan
at 8:06 AM on Thursday, February 05, 2009

The iPhone is cool and sexy. Rails is cool and sexy. Shouldn’t they be a little more compatible?

We think so and have released the first version of ObjectiveResource, our port of Rails’ ActiveResource to Objective-C for the iPhone. We’ve used it extensively on some of our iphone projects and have gotten a good response from others that have stumbled upon it.

Basically, it provides an easy way to consume and integrate with Rails’ standard XML and JSON RESTful web-services (just as ActiveResource does for Ruby).

iPhoneOnRails.com is where we’re going to keep the development progress and planning for the framework as well as the various resources we’ve established for those that have questions and concerns. So have a look, play with the source yourself, join the mailing list and keep track at the iPhoneOnRails blog.

And let us know if you’re using ObjectiveResource and want to be featured on the site, or have a quote about using the framework you want us to put up.

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  1. Nathan de Vries – February 05, 2009 @ 08:09 AM

    Hey Ryan,

    First link points to iphonerails.com, which as you probably know has been domain squatted.

    Cheers,

    Nathan de Vries

  2. Ward – February 05, 2009 @ 08:51 AM

    kewl stuff…just in time for a new iphone app ;-) tnx!

  3. Ryan Daigle – February 05, 2009 @ 09:04 AM

    @Nathan – thanks for pointing that out – it’s fixed now.

  4. Mislav – February 05, 2009 @ 09:28 AM

    So awesome

  5. Sijmen – February 05, 2009 @ 10:44 AM

    This is absolutely fantastic. I was about to write this myself so the timing is perfect. Thank you.

  6. Geoff – February 05, 2009 @ 02:08 PM

    I had started on something like this last year but never finished it. Glad somebody did! I will be using this library for sure. Great work!

  7. skip hire – February 06, 2009 @ 08:47 AM

    It’s one thing to compliment your work, but why add ‘I started it too’ or ‘I was just about to do the same’. Allow a man his credit and don’t dilute it postees!

  8. Jordan Duggan – February 06, 2009 @ 11:39 AM

    He who ships wins. Good work guys.

  9. Ryan Daigle – February 06, 2009 @ 09:30 PM

    @skip – no worries man – the fact that others have considered the need for such a thing only validates the idea!

  10. Talha Syed – February 09, 2009 @ 03:43 PM

    This is great stuff – just what we needed for our app. Thanks!

  11. sanbit – February 11, 2009 @ 03:06 AM

    Nice job, there are a few that are out already though. I wrote my own mini activerecord port for the iphone too, but I’m not sure it’s not even close to yours in terms of functionality.

  12. Janice – February 22, 2009 @ 02:59 PM

    Well if the other two guys were about to or going to, then why didn’t they? Glad you did.

  13. Reese Payton – March 25, 2009 @ 06:05 PM

    I don’t have a quote to use, but wanted instead to give you a pat on the back. How about those apples? Reese Payton

  14. kq – April 09, 2009 @ 03:12 AM

    Nice work.

    And Josh Vickery did a nice job on the Vimeo screencast (“Getting Started with Objective Resource”):

    http://www.vimeo.com/3077209