Rhodes-open source framework for Building Smartphone Apps with ruby

Rhodes is an open source framework to rapidly build NATIVE apps for all major smartphone operating systems (iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM, Symbian and Android).
Rhodes using Ruby as the development language. It has access to native device capabilities such as GPS geolocation, PIM contact reading/writing and camera image capture. Development process can be called as “easier” with Rhodes  as most of your UI customization can be done in HTML templates.
There are integrated styling libraries for matching the look and feel of native applications (ex: for iPhone, it is based on iUI and jQTouch can be used as well).

features

* support for ALL smartphones
* synchronized offline data
* a Model View Controller (MVC) framework
* an Object Relational Manager (ORM) to avoid direct SQL coding
* the first mobile Ruby
* a hosted development service

Requirements: Ruby
Compatibility: iPhone, Android Windows Mobile, RIM, and Symbian
Website : http://rhomobile.com/products/rhodes/
Sample Apps : http://github.com/rhomobile
Download : http://rhomobile.com/products/rhodes/download/
License : MIT License

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