The iPhone and iPod touch made Mobile Safari the most popular mobile browser in the United States. Although Mobile Safari is more than adequate at rendering normal Web pages, many Web developers created versions of applications aimed at the iPhone. Here in Part 2 of this "Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse" series, we learn the common use of drill-down lists as a navigation method

The iPhone and iPod touch made Mobile Safari the most popular mobile browser in the United States. Although Mobile Safari is more than adequate at rendering normal Web pages, many Web developers created versions of applications aimed at the iPhone. This "Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse" series shows how to use Ruby On Rails on the server side to identify and serve custom content to Mobile Safari.

While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create a cartoon that you can put on your Facebook friends’ sites.

File Attachment plugin for Rails

For most of us here at Mashable, the biggest, most well known application running on the Rails platform we can think of is Twitter - a tool hardly known for its stability. While this contributes to the mythology of the platform’s instability, what really propagates it is a number of things.

Though we won't claim that Ruby Reports (Ruport) will make your reporting tasks fun, we think it manages to make them a whole lot more tolerable. Ruport doesn't try to write your reports for you, it just provides you a solid foundation to start with. Using Ruport as a basis for your reporting applications will help you keep your code clean and organized, and keep you from going postal the next time someone asks you for a printable version of your finely crafted in-browser report.