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02 July 2007

Mobile.rb

The power of Ruby in the palm of your hand. It doesn't get much cornier than that but here is two projects to get some Ruby applications going on your Symbian or Windows Mobile 5 device...

  • Ruby for Symbian OS
    • An official release from Symbian to accompany their "Runtime environments on Symbian OS" series. They've released the source code (based on Ruby 1.8.5) and will also be shipping basic libraries for Rendering, Messaging and Persistence to accompany the release in future.
    • It installed without a hitch on a test Nokia E61 but the functionality out-of-the-box is still a little limited at the moment.   
    • While this release only support S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3rd Ed support for older devices is promised. (There is also this project on RubyForge which offers a basic Ruby interpreter for S60 3nd Edition. Not related to the Symbian release though)
  • Ruby for Windows Mobile 5 (ruby-mswince)
    • This was the release I was looking for that originally prompted this post.  I found the above mentioned site and it looked promising as the last build was 2007.05.31 but unfortunately the site is in Japanese? so I apart from clearly being for WM5 with a recent release there's not much more to make out on the site.
    • Luckily Andry Huzain detailed the entire process of getting it running on your Windows Mobile 5 PPC on his blog over here.
    • It depends on getting a console running on your device so unfortunately that ruled out getting it running on my Samsung BlackJack. If someone knows of a command shell for WM5 SmartPhone please let me know.

At present it seems that the tasks you can accomplish with Ruby on mobile phones is still pretty trivial compared to the features available in the .NET CF or J2ME but with the evr growing popularity of Ruby I'm sure we'll soon see more Ruby with richer libraries on device as well.

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Comments

# Willie Roberts said:

So... How about a post to Tutorial Centre on what's needed to get started with Ruby.... You have my full attention... For a bit.

I'll be getting all my posts up to speed this week, and finish what I started BTW.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:02 AM
# rudi said:

Or a SADeveloper.net session?

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:55 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

@Rudi, I'm doing a Rails talk at a SA Developer meeting the 15th of August. I'll post more details on my blog a bit later this week :)

@Willie, will do soon. Can't promise dates but possibly something to go with the talk mentioned above.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:05 PM