Ruby for BlackBerry PlayBook Development:an Ultimate Toolbox

Keywords:Ruby,BlackBerry PlayBook,Mobile Development

Description:This article discusses about frameworks and libraries for BlackBerry PlayBook application development in fantastic Ruby programming language.

Ruby is a modern programming language designed to be a cross-platform solution that perfectly empowers web,desktop and even mobile applications.In other words,Ruby is an versatile language can be used to develop most of amazing applications that you need,for instance,an application or web application running on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.In this post,you will discover frameworks and libraries in Ruby for developing your first BlackBerry PlayBook application.

Ruby web frameworks for Backend Development

Web frameworks is used to interact with databases and web services to fetch data for frontend user interfaces.In this section,you'll find a list of Ruby web frameworks.

1.Flame:Flame is a small Ruby web framework to be an alternative to Sinatra,or even Ruby on Rails.It's inspired by another Ruby web framework called Gin.Flame is a perfect solution if you need to build web applications quickly but do not intended to use a full-stack web framework.

2.Gin:As mentioned above,Flame is inspired by the minimal framework Gin.Gin is similar to Sinatra micro-framework,but it has featured a couple of built-in features for both small and large web applications.

Rich Internet Application framework for developing BlackBerry PlayBook applications with Ruby

Rich Internet Application(RIA) technology simplifies the development of UI and AJAX with a bunch of rich controls and AJAX utilities.RIAs can run on web browser and be packaged as a standalone BlackBerry PlayBooks application.In this section,you'll find useful information about how to take advantage of Ruby and RIA frameworks to build PlayBook applications.