Budgets

An example iPhone application that talks to a RESTful Rails application to manage budgets and their related expenses.

Why?

This application is intended as a demonstration of how to use ObjectiveResource to manage two (nested) resources living in a Rails application. I first created this application as one of the examples used in my 360iDev presentation in October 2009.

Oh, and because programming is fun. :-)

Features

Again, this app is intended for demonstration purposes only, but it sports a few features you may want to consider in your application:

• Supports all CRUD operations of two resources (Budget and Expense)
• Nested resources
• Asynchronous network requests
• Authentication
• Error handling

For a simpler, stripped down example of how to get started with ObjectiveResource using a single resource, check out the Expenses app.

Quickstart

1. Fire up the Rails application:

   $ cd server/budgets
   $ rake db:migrate
   $ ruby script/server
   

2. Point your trusty browser at the running Rails app, and create an account and a budget.

3. Open the iPhone project and run it!

   $ cd client/Budgets
   $ open Budgets.xcodeproj
   

Screenshots

This app won't win any design awards, but that's not the point...

• Authentication
• Editing Nested Resources

Additional Resources

Of course there are alternatives to ObjectiveResource, though they aren't designed specifically to work with Rails:

• httpriot
• ASIHTTPRequest

Author

Mike Clark mike@clarkware.com