Ruby developers tend to be technology-curious. We love to explore. We also, often, find ourselves writing back ends to iPhone/iOS front ends. However, Rails and iOS have more in common than you may know. I'll demonstrate how you can leverage your existing Rails skills to learn how to develop for iOS.

2. A little on language

3. Ye Olde Rails
golden path

4. iPhone
golden path

5. iPad
golden path

11. Rails 3
generated code
➜ rails g scaffold blog
blogs_controller: 83 lines
migration: 12 lines
model: 2 lines

12. iPad generated code:
Split View-based app
RootViewController.m: 317 lines
DetailViewController.m: 160 lines
2 HUGE .xib (XML) files: DON’T ASK

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/travis_warren123/4229031035/

22. Boogeymen

26. Testing
It REALLY SUCKS
on iOS!!!!

29. Text
http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-mcxcode/becoming-productive-in-xcode

31. http://stackoverflow.com

32. Libraries you should
look at
• TouchXML
• TouchJSON
• ASIHTTPRequest
• Facebook three20

33. Advice
• Always lead your inline strings
with a @
• Do read about UIView
• Do not use Interface Builder
• NSLog is your friend