Question

Trying to get a feel for Rhomobile vis a vis Appcelerator – thoughts on whether or not they are direct competitors?

Many thanks,
Wes

Answer 1

Yes, they are direct competitors.

I found this post that compares the following frameworks: App Inventor, DroidDraw, Rhomobile, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, WebView, and AML.

Rhodes is a complete Model-View-Controller framework written in Ruby.
Rhodes takes your Ruby code and compiles it into native code for
whatever device(s) you wish to target. This removes the need for you
to write any code whatsoever in the target devices’ native languages.

Appcelerator’s Titanium platform is a very powerful and
feature-complete solution. It is similar in some ways to Rhodes and
PhoneGap, but the implementation is a bit different. Titanium
primarily uses Javascript and JSON code to as the application
language, though it can make use of Ruby, Python, and PHP scripts.
Like the other two, it aims to be a complete self-contained library
that removes the need to write any native platform code (although they
provide a way to do so if you want to extend the functionality).