Ask HN: Transition from Rails development to iPhone/Android?

About a year ago I started learning web dev in my spare time. First HTML/CSS, the moved on to RoR and with it, Haml and Sass. I am in love with the simplicity and ease with which RoR and related tools lets me develop web apps. Recently, I picked up a book on Objective-C and iPhone dev. BAM! Brick wall. This kind of work seems to be much more painful.<p>So HN, I asks:<p>Is there any method, toolkit, library, etc that provides me the same ease and simplicity for iPhone/Android development work?