# Mobile Rails Development

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mobile-rails-development/112860>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 23, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mobile-rails-development/112860 "2007-08-23T23:35:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mmccall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@mmccall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mmccall)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mobile-rails-development/112860/1 "2007-08-23T23:35:09Z")

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Hello,

I want to develop a Rails application for a mobile device. Would  
anyone know of any tutorials on the web on how to create a mobile  
application view using Rails?

Moses

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**Author:** ![mmccall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@mmccall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mmccall)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mobile-rails-development/112860/2 "2007-08-24T00:06:12Z")

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On Aug 23, 2007, at 5:33 PM, mmccall wrote:

> I want to develop a Rails application for a mobile device. Would  
> anyone know of any tutorials on the web on how to create a mobile  
> application view using Rails?

Assuming you mean “a web app people access from their mobile device”  
then the main issue is making sure your views are all appropriate to  
the accessing devices. This may mean complicated logic to display  
the correct view for each different device.

If you mean an app that runs natively on the phones then I believe  
you’re blazing new ground – you might look at whether you can deploy  
an app using JRuby and J2ME.

-faisal