From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2004-11-06T01:36:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Mobile Ruby

Brian Yamabe wrote:
> 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.
> 

How would this be different then opening a SSH/Telnet window to a remote 
server and programming there?

Jim
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