How to Build a Mobile Rails 3.1 App

This is a simple guide to show how to use the Mobylette gem to make your Rails application respond to mobile and standard devices, and the jquery_mobile_rails gem to make it look awesome while doing that.

The final application’s source is available on Github. It is also running on heroku, if you want to check.

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Asynchronous UISearchBar / UISearchDisplayController With Autocomplete

This is my second week working with objective-c and iphone. The task is to make a search with autocomplete. Both search and autocomplete should get results from a remote webservice. I was searching google about how to populate a UISearchDisplayController with remote data, asynchronously of course, when I found a great guide here. I already had a working datasource for autocomplete: - (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString { [_autocompleteDataSource searchFor:searchString]; return NO; } The trick was to reload the tableview data in my datasource ([tableView reloadData]), when it finishes loading. Continue reading