http://www.infoq.com/interviews/blum-rhodes-mobile
- our goal is to provide a framework that enables people to very quickly build smart phone applications that are native mobile device applications, let them write their app once and then they run as native apps across all smart phones.
- there are six major smart phones operating systems
- it was pretty clear that if you wanted to do anything that was less horizontal than email, then you needed to have some kind of platform or framework to enable that to be done.
- model view controller framework similar to other model view controller frameworks like Rails or Python Django or Java Struts. Rhodes is to building native smart phone applications. So absolutely the controllers that you write with Rhodes will be done in Ruby, the views will be done in HTML templates and we chose that not because you are building mobile browser applications, in fact if anything it's sort of a anti mobile browser approach it's all about native apps, but HTML is something that everybody knows. So, you write your views in HTML templates, and then combine with your controller, and then we have a very lightweight ORM, called Rhom that is your model so you take your Rhom models and your Ruby based controllers, and your views and you compile it all into native executables for each of the OSes.