What are the Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?

As part of the new community-driven research initiative, we are examining the importance and adoption level of a range of cross platform mobile tools that aim to help developers deliver applications on a variety of mobile platforms. 
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Stop Using Native HTML5

Kyle Simpson advises on accessing HTML5 or JavaScript native APIs though a façade built with h5ive that would protect the application code from evolving API changes over the following years. 
Stop Using Native HTML5

Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Deployment and Management

Rails developers can draw from a huge pool of libraries to build their applications. Dozens of options are available just for templating: do you use ERB, HAML, SASS, or do you prefer a JavaScript approach with Backbone.js or Knockout.js? The possibilities are endless, so we want to find out what our readers are using, or planning to use in the future.
Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Deployment and Management

Top JavaScript MVC Frameworks

As more and more logic ends up being executed in the browser, JavaScript front-end codebases grow larger and more difficult to maintain. As a way to solve this issue developers have been turning to MVC frameworks which promise increased productivity and maintainable code. As part of the new community-driven research initiative, InfoQ is examining the adoption of such frameworks and libraries by developer
Top JavaScript MVC Frameworks