How to deploy back-end on parse.com?

Question

Android

Hello! The question is:
At the moment we have our own back-end for the iOS application, written in ruby ​​on rails. The back-end itself is located on the same virtual machine as the landing site, which receives some traffic + some intranet services on it.
I would like to transfer the back-end to the cloud in order to scale the loads and so on. We stumbled upon parse.com.
I am a manager myself, so the question is:
How does parse.com work on fingers? How to put our ruby ​​code there (or is it not required)?
At the moment, the application is only for iOS, but Android is planned. The back-end will be the same.

Answer 1

Most likely you will have to rewrite the backend code, since parse.com (as I understand it) is a whole platform, or infrastructure, for writing so-called "single" backends. They have their own SDK, their own datastore, cron, etc. I would still call it a "platform".
I have not come across this service, but I can recommend you look towards Google AppEngine. They have recently had a thing called "Endpoints". It was created just for writing mobile backends. Not only mobile, of course, but you can see that the emphasis on "mobile" is still done in the documentation.
Google Cloud Endpoints
I advise you to read it.
And yes, there is no ruby, but there is python, java, go (experimental),
php (experimental) Isn't that great? :-)

Answer 2

You can use Azure Mobile Services which supports development\clients on W8\WP\iOS\Adroid\PhoneGap\HTML\Xamarin\Sencha ( read more here). There is a presentation and report on the topic of Azure Mobile Services in Russian - 5 mobile platforms - one .... By the way, at the end of the report there is a comparison with Parse and examples of using the service on the Russian market. In fact, Mobile Services now has richer functionality than described in the report (although the report is not "old", but the service is developing very quickly).