Questions tagged [rhomobile]

With the RhoMobile Suite you can use your web skills to build cross-platform native mobile applications. Main focus are enterprise apps, targeting iOS, Android and even Windows Mobile.

With the RhoMobile Suite you can use your web skills to build native mobile applications.

The RhoMobile Suite is an open source enterprise mobility suite of products previously owned by Zebra Technologies. With RhoMobile you can 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 subscription to compile applications
  • RhoConnect - Integration and synchronization engine - requires a subscription to be used
  • RhoHub - Cloud service to develop Rhodes/RhoElements apps & hosting RhoConnect
  • RhoGallery - Enterprise Application Management. Simple and Easy to use

Zebra Technologies has built Launchpad, a community site with recorded webinars, documentation, blogs and public forum for all the interested developers.

RhoMobile is now developed in the open by Tau-Technologies

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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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running and configuring rhoconnect as an instance on heroku

I am trying to run rhoconnect as a separate app on heroku (is this actually possible?), along with a rails backend application (not addon, that would not support my devise authentication for backend rails application). This is to enable sync from…
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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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Read a txt file content in Rhomobile

I have a txt file stored in file system. I want to read the content of that file in single go and assign it to a varialble. whichever function i try i get this error Error: undefined method 'root' for # How can i do this?
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To access Github private ropositories in rhomobile

I am trying to access and list GitHub private repositories for logged in user via Github API.While i managed to list public,forked and watched repositories ,i dont know how to use access token getting private repositories list. I am trying improve…
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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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Rhomobile vs. MoSync/Phonegap/HTML5

I am interested in supporting a few different platforms, like Android, iOS, Windows, and I was interested in Rhomobile might help? However, I am concerned about not being able to use any device specific syncing capabilities. Has anyone worked…
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Understanding android text input and soft keyboard

When user selects input field, keyboard comes up but the input field text is right on top of the virtual keyboard. Problem gets worse when it is a textarea because keyboard wants to focus on the first line only not the entire textarea box. In my…
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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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What has been your experience with RhoMobile + JqueryMobile + KnockoutJS?

My team and I have been engaged in building several cross-platform (BlackBerry, Android, iOS) mobile apps for our organization using RhoMobile + JqueryMobile + KnockoutJS. The development experience is acceptable considering the state of…
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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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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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