Description:

Want to get into mobile app development with your Ruby skills? Or maybe you are already switching between Java, ObjectiveC and/or C++ to target applications to various popular mobile devices and you are thinking that there must be a better way...

In this talk, Sarah Allen will share her experience developing mobile applications using Ruby. She will highlight several emerging toolkits and provide an overview of today's mobile platforms and marketplace. Then she will dive into how to code a native app using the Rhomobile framework, as well as demonstrating using eRB to integrate UI components that make a web application look and feel like a native app.