rails_jqtouch
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A Ruby on Rails plugin to wrap some of the functionality of the jQuery plugin jQTouch, very useful
for creating web applications for Mobile Webkit browsers (like iPhone).

I created this plugin to make some examples of web applications development for the iPhone 
(using Rails of course) at FLISOL 2009 - Punto Fijo (scheduled at May 9 in Punto Fijo, Venezuela). 

jQTouch is very new and cool, and I think a Rails plugin can help to improve jQTouch and, of course,
make the web development for mobile devices easier in Rails. Functionality still incomplete, I'm not
a "mobile device power developer" so, comments, sugestions and improvements are welcome. Some ideas
were taked from rails_iui by Noel Rappin.

And... this is my first public released code, so... be nice!!!

Addtional Info
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Home page of jQTouch: http://www.jqtouch.com/

The URL at github: http://github.com/rrodrigu3z/rails_jqtouch/tree/master

And the clone url: git://github.com/rrodrigu3z/rails_jqtouch.git

Contact
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Feel free to contact me at rrodrigu3z at gmail.com

Example
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After install rails_jqtouch (see clone url), you must run a rake task to copy all needed files
to the rails project (javascripts, stylesheets, images and layouts). 

rake rails_jqtouch:install

There are another couple of rake tasks available:

rake rails_jqtouch:jqtouch_version  # Show jQTouch version included
rake rails_jqtouch:clean            # Delete all installed files

Similiar to rails_iui, rails_jqtouch can recognize Mobile Safari Web Browsers, so, include the
following line to any controller or ApplicationController:

acts_as_iphone_controller

This enable your controller to respond_to an :iphone option, and looking xxxx.iphone.erb templates.

Helpers methods from Jqtouch::MobileHelper are included automatically.

A simple application.iphone.erb layout is generated and copied to app/views/layouts, use this as
an example or reference for your custom layouts.

Doc
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Documentation is included in all files, but... in Spanish!!, so if someone could translate that...
help is welcome.

My English is not very good.


Enjoy!!

 

Copyright (c) 2009 Ricardo Rodríguez, released under the MIT license