Questions tagged [rhodes]

Rhodes is an open source Ruby-based cross-platform development framework designed to create native applications. Developers utilize a standard MVC architecture using Ruby and HTML-templating (ERB), including constructs to interact natively with the device. The framework's write-once:deploy-many approach currently supports building to iOS, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, Big Windows (XP, 7 and 8) and Windows Phone.

Rhodes is an open source framework with MIT license that allows to build cross-platform native mobile applications using web skills. It's part of the RhoMobile Suite.

Source code of Rhodes are available on the public github repository.

The RhoMobile Suite is an enterprise mobility suite of products distributed by Motorola Solutions to develop, integrate, deploy and manage your enterprise mobile applications.

Components of the RhoMobile Suite are:

  • RhoStudio - IDE based on Eclipse for Windows and OS X
  • Rhodes - Opensource Frameworks with MIT license to build B2C application
  • RhoElements - based on Rhodes, adds functionality like support for Windows Mobile, requires a license to be used without a nag-screen
  • RhoConnect - Integration and synchronization engine - requires a license to be used
  • RhoHub - Cloud service to develop Rhodes/RhoElements apps & hosting RhoConnect
  • RhoGallery - Enterprise Application Management. Simple and Easy to use

Motorola Solutions has built Launchpad, a community site with recorded webinars, documentation, blogs and public forum for all the interested developers. is part of the suite of RhoMobile (now a Motorola company) products used for developing client side mobile applications.

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How to insert/update multiple records in single call to create/update_attributes in Rhomobile

As per the performance tip in Rhom API of Rhomobile, We should prepare the whole data set first and then call the create/update_attributes for better performance over preparing single record then calling create inside loop. As per my knowledge,…
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Trouble Accessing Ruby Params on RhoMobile

I'm new to Ruby so please excuse my ignorance. I really didn't know how to word this question so this may also be part of the reason I haven't found an answer online. I'm working with Rho Elements, and I'm trying to pass something from one page to…
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Rhomobile inserting into local database using CSV or XML from external web server

I am currently developing a Rhomobile application. I have a backend database which holds customer information. I have got from the webserver a csv string (or XML - I am able to parse the XML using REXML) which contains all the customers. Each time I…
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Session in Rails vs Session in rhodes

In Rails its easy to store and retrieve session variables. for e.g session[:user_id] = @current_user.id I was wondering if there is something this like in rhodes too. Like in rails request parameters are accessible through params['name'] while in…
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user id for queries in rhomobile

I'm making an app in rhodes that connects through rhoconnect with an asp.net mvc webservice. I'm confused how to handle 'current user id' in rhodes. An example of a function in asp.net is: getFriends(int personid), changeSettings(int personid) ... A…
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need rails like form_for tag in Rhodes

I was wondering if I can have something like form_for tag instead of the html tag in the edit.erb page in Rhodes. Because I have a Counter model with two attribs which I want to update them seperately based on the button pressed which resides right…
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Is there any Rhodes local storage like android have Shared Preference

I want to store login details on Rhodes. What should I do? Is there one like Android Shared Preference?
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error occurs while running rake run:android

I tried to run rake run:android the follwing occurs, kindly assist me. AndroidManifest change file [C:/Users/giridhran/workspace/myfirst/bin/libs/relea se/arm-linux-androideabi/4.4.3/extensions/AndroidManifest.xml] from native exten sion not found…
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Android Emulator Showing Chines character

I have run my rhodes application in Android emulator. When i type characters in input field, i got chines character. How can i change lang setting please ?
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jqGrid alternate for Mobile apps

Is there any thing similar to jqGrid available for Mobile applications ? Could someone please suggest a javascript plugin that I can use with RhoMobile platform ?
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How to made SOAP request from Rhodes?, I don't want to use Rhoconnect

I am having my rhodes application. I would like to make SOAP request . I dont' want to make user of rhosync/rhoconnect. How can i found soap header and body please ?
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Showing a View on a button click in rhoMobile

I have created a simple project in rhomobile. My home screen shows a text box and a button. here is the code for that in index.erb


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Rhomobile: Custom URL Schemes

I'm writing a Rhomobile application targeted at iPhone and Android. I need to create a custom url scheme, so that i can create urls that look like test://some-params that will launch my program and will pass it the params. As far as I understand…
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'Error Loading Page' when testing RhoMobile application on a phone - using jQuery Mobile

I'm developing a mobile app using the Rhomobile framework/Rhodes - a combination of Ruby and JqueryMobile. When I build and test my application on my desktop on the emulator, clicking on a link loads the relevant page. However when I try to access…
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Debug rhodes framework

I'm newbie to ruby and rhomobile. I'm debuggind succesffuly using the simulator, I can set breakpoints, etc... All works fine except I can't debug inside the framework code. How can I debug through the framework code in a rhomobile app? How can I…
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