From: brian.yamabe@... (Brian Yamabe)
Date: 2004-11-06T01:28:47+09:00
Subject: Mobile Ruby

First, I'm not talking about Ruby on mobile devices.  I'm talking
about being able to program in Ruby from anywhere.  As a developer
I've always been resigned to the fact that I'd be tied to a specific
machine (laptop or desktop).  I couldn't just go off and borrow
someone elses computer to do some development without installing
runtimes, ide's, editors, libraries, etc.  Then this morning I
thought, why not?  Isn't a wiki just a brain-dead remote source code
repository.  Why not execute that repository?  Obviously there need to
be some configuration layers added and an editor tailored to
programming, but the basic concept isn't a huge leap.

I'm not the brightest bulb in the draw, so I figure someone must have
thought of this before.  Has anyone implemented it?  Ruby seems like
an ideal candidate for doing this kind of work.