[PhillyOnRails] [MPSIG] Using Ruby on Rails on the Macintosh to Program the iPhone!

[John Ashmead]

On the first Saturday in February, 2/2/2008, at 10:30 am at Cheyney  
University in the Duckrey Building room 117, the Philadelphia  
Macintosh Programming Group (MPSIG) will meet & discuss how to use  
Ruby on Rails on the Mac to Program the iPhone.

Our speaker, Michael Pigg, will talk on building an iPhone GTD  
(Getting Things Done Database) Using Ruby on Rails.  As Michael very  
eloquently put it:

`What is Ruby on Rails? According to the website, "Rails is a full- 
stack framework for developing database-backed web applications  
according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the  
view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain  
model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development  
environment." OS X Leopard now ships with Rails as a standard  
component of the system, making the power of Rails easily accessible  
to Mac developers. Instead of the J2EE stack and $60 development  
environment that I used to build my web-based iPhone GTD app in  
December, I will demonstrate how to build the same app using Leopard's  
built-in Rails and other no-cost tools.'

So, it has been even easier to use your Mac as a web development  
platform. And given that the SDK (Software Development Kit) for the  
iPhone is coming out in February, this talk couldn't be more timely!   
Use Ruby on Rails to make your first million programming the iPhone  
(not that we would ever appeal to crass material interests in the  
Macintosh Programming Group!)

I'd like to again thank Chris Heimark for the great talk he gave on  
"One Time Pads" in our January meeting.  I'm sure that Chris software  
will be the choice of better spies everywhere.  And very useful for  
commercial applications as well!

Future talks include:  Rich Morby on using perl to control PDF files  
and myself on using XML on the Mac.

We meet at 10:30 am first Saturday of each month, and have been doing  
so for more than five years now!

The space at Cheyney University is great:  we have a large room,  
internet connections, a projector & screen, the building to ourselves  
(no competing noise), plenty of parking, & can stay as late as we  
like, if the discussion runs over.  We start with Q & A at 10:30am, to  
give people time to get in, and then go usually till about 12:30 plus  
or minus.

There are directions to Cheyney University on their web page (http://www.cheyney.edu/pages/index.asp?p=142 
) but these are not as clear as one might like.  I've found the trick  
for getting better directions.  Bring up Google Maps, then put in as  
your destination "Cheyney University", nothing else.

Once you get to the campus, the Duckrey building is on University  
Circle.  This is near the bottom on Cheyney's campus map (http://www.cheyney.edu/pages/flash/map/index.htm?p=429 
).  For some reason, their map has north to the right, which is a bit  
confusing

And please check out MPSIG's revised web site.

Any questions, ask me, john.ashmead at ashmeadsoftware.com or Deivy, mlmug at dicas.com 
.

Cheers,

John Ashmead

John Ashmead
Ashmead Software & Consulting, Inc.
139 Montrose Avenue
Rosemont, PA 19010-1508
(610) 527 9560  fax (610) 527 4640
john.ashmead at ashmeadsoftware.com
http://www.ashmeadsoftware.com/


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