Ask HN: Help!! Need to learn to build stuff - within 2 weeks!

Post by justustrees » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 12:48 AM UTC

no-go-mojo wrote: post #9

justustrees wrote: post #7

Why the 2 week time limit? Anyway, you could probably set up a site on Heroku and start building something with Ruby on Rails pretty quickly. It would be a marginal task to connect a jQuery Mobile application to the RoR app on Heroku. I think you should learn jQuery and jQuery Mobile if you want to build a mobile application, then use PhoneGap to build it for both Android and iPhone. The quickest way to start buildin…

I started doing this yesterday (RoR), it took me the whole day just setting up on a Windows box - like all of 12 hours yesterday! Thanks for the detailed explanation, super helpful. I will dive right in. Why: I sold the idea, too well maybe, and now must deliver. "Building in HTML / CSS / JavaScript (using jQuery) will be the quickest way to a front-end, building it with PhoneGap will be the quickest way to Mobile, a…

Post by kingofspain » Sat, Sep 10, 2011, 7:44 PM UTC

glimcat wrote: post #12

kingofspain wrote: post #3

Try http://www.appcelerator.com/ - you can easily have a basic app up & running with JS in no time. Take a look at the kitchen sink demo and just rip out/adapt the parts you need.

Why this instead of PhoneGap?