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Rhodes 2.0 is now free under MIT License

31 points by sant0sk1 16y ago

rufugee 16y ago
While Rhodes is now under the MIT license, I don't think this includes the RhoSync server, which runs (http://rhomobile.com/products/rhosync/ http://rhomobile.com/products/rhosync/) $10,000 for 100 users. I'd love to hear from someone more in the know to understand whether a RhoSync-less Rhodes app is capable of being full-featured, and what you sacrifice by not purchasing RhoSync.
- jackowayed 16y ago
  I talked to the Rhodes guys at Railsconf and have looked at Rhodes a little. First of all, they told me that if you OSS your app, you get RhoSync for free, though I don't see that on their site. I'm pretty sure that you could write a perfectly fine app without RhoSync. I think RhoSync is for making it easy to sync data between your servers and the app (and it can send a push notification to tell them they have new data), but I don't think there's any reason that you couldn't just use normal practices of querying APIs and stashing that data in the database.
kirubakaran 16y ago
"Rhodes is an open source framework to rapidly build native apps for all major smartphone operating systems (iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM, Symbian and Android). Write your code once and immediately build apps for every major smartphone. These are true native device applications which work with synchronized local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera."
tomkinstinch 16y ago
Does anyone here have experience working with the Rhodes framework? I've used PhoneGap for an app and am curious whether it may be worth switching to Rhodes for a future app.
adamblum 16y ago
You do not need to use RhoSync with your Rhodes apps to connect to backend apps. RhoSync makes it easier to provide synchronized offline data. Its very commonly needed in enterprise app scenarios. All that said, Rhodes works great without to connect to backend systems. Versus other frameworks (such as PhoneGap) Rhodes: - is the only Model View Controller framework - is the only Object Relational Manager for smartphones - is the only framework with sync - has the only hosted development service (RhoHub) - features the first mobile Ruby implementations for all devices
jamesbritt 16y ago
How do I get the code? All I was able to find on that site was a place to sign up. No git repo? No tarball?
- mjrusso 16y ago
  The code is available here: http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes
  - jamesbritt 16y ago
    Thank you!

31 points by sant0sk1 16y ago

While Rhodes is now under the MIT license, I don't think this includes the RhoSync server, which runs (http://rhomobile.com/products/rhosync/ http://rhomobile.com/products/rhosync/) $10,000 for 100 users. I'd love to hear from someone more in the know to understand whether a RhoSync-less Rhodes app is capable of being full-featured, and what you sacrifice by not purchasing RhoSync.

jackowayed 16y ago
I talked to the Rhodes guys at Railsconf and have looked at Rhodes a little. First of all, they told me that if you OSS your app, you get RhoSync for free, though I don't see that on their site. I'm pretty sure that you could write a perfectly fine app without RhoSync. I think RhoSync is for making it easy to sync data between your servers and the app (and it can send a push notification to tell them they have new data), but I don't think there's any reason that you couldn't just use normal practices of querying APIs and stashing that data in the database.

kirubakaran 16y ago

"Rhodes is an open source framework to rapidly build native apps for all major smartphone operating systems (iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM, Symbian and Android). Write your code once and immediately build apps for every major smartphone. These are true native device applications which work with synchronized local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera."

tomkinstinch 16y ago

Does anyone here have experience working with the Rhodes framework? I've used PhoneGap for an app and am curious whether it may be worth switching to Rhodes for a future app.

adamblum 16y ago

You do not need to use RhoSync with your Rhodes apps to connect to backend apps. RhoSync makes it easier to provide synchronized offline data. Its very commonly needed in enterprise app scenarios. All that said, Rhodes works great without to connect to backend systems. Versus other frameworks (such as PhoneGap) Rhodes: - is the only Model View Controller framework - is the only Object Relational Manager for smartphones - is the only framework with sync - has the only hosted development service (RhoHub) - features the first mobile Ruby implementations for all devices

jamesbritt 16y ago

How do I get the code? All I was able to find on that site was a place to sign up. No git repo? No tarball?

mjrusso 16y ago
The code is available here: http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes
- jamesbritt 16y ago
  Thank you!