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iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK
by Kyle Richter, Joe Keeley
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
19h 3m
English
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Tying It All Together
Return to the iOS project. The first thing you need to do is update the URL for the server, so your device knows where to make the network calls. There is an NSString constant called kShoutOutServerURLString in the ShoutOut-Prefix.pch file to identify the server on the local network:
#define kShoutOutServerURLString @"http://twiki.local:3000"
Replace twiki in that address with the name of your computer that is running the Rails server—if it has Bonjour networking that address will work.
Note
Check to be sure your computer and wireless network are not set up to block port 3000.
You need to add logic to tell the server about the user’s device. In the ICFMainViewController, there is a method ...
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