From: "Bradley, Todd" <todd.bradley@...>
Date: 2004-11-06T02:40:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Mobile Ruby

When I started learning Ruby a few weeks ago, I decided I wanted to be
able to program from "anywhere" so I bought one of those USB flash
drives and put all my source code and documentation on that.  I have
Ruby installed on my work desktop, my home desktop, and my home laptop
now so I just take my USB drive around with me and whenever I feel the
urge, I can work on my code.  I realize that's not quite what you're
asking for, but it's a simple solution that works for me.


Todd.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian.yamabe@gmail.com [mailto:brian.yamabe@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> 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.
>