Getting started with iOS development on Heroku

Sinatra seems like a natural choice to write a simple web service API for an iOS app. Anyone know where I find a deeper resource that might assist "Sinatra for iOS" development?

Not a Sinatra app but you may want to have a look at this:

https://github.com/lottadot/lottadot-restkit-ios-rails3-1-ad...

That's fine and dandy, and I love Heroku, but recently I've been falling in love with Parse(.com) for iOS development.

True, Heroku gives me more control over how I want to handle requests, but Parse has so much more built in and is simpler to integrate.

What I've been doing with iOS & parse is hook a heroku app to Parse's REST API whenever I want to manipulate the data that is sent beyond what parse allows.

This "Getting Started" post is only likely to actually get you started if you're already familiar with Ruby, Heroku deployment basics, and Sinatra's dependencies.

There is nothing in this guide that lays out all of the components in the tool chain and explains which problems each tool is designed to solve.

Okay, so I should go to the component level to glean that, right? Well on the Sinatra site, there is nothing that explains the specific problems that Sinatra itself is designed to solve. The very first line of the Getting Started section of the Readme page says "Sinatra is a [some three letter acronym]"...with no indication of what that is or why I should want one.

The problem with that is I gain no insight whatsoever into whether the simple examples will translate to something I'd actually want to build. Without that, it literally makes no difference how great the toolchain might be. Exploring it is 100% opportunity cost vs. some shittier solution that actually explains itself more fully up front.

And soon it won't even need MacRuby, just the Ruby that ships with OSX.