From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T21:46:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Postgres-0.7.1 Installation Question

Rainer wrote:

> A way to get the sockets is to cross-compile Ruby for ARM, with the
> additonal advantage of getting a more recent version of Ruby. I did it
> a while ago with a 1.8.2 preview, using the famous zruby.rb script, and
> it worked. It required a couple of hours of manipulating header files
> though. The libraries on the Zaurus were older than expected.

Thanks for the tip. I will look into doing this. I recall working with
the Zaurus a few years ago and ran into the same things where I felt
like I was peeling an onion :-) There were a lot of deprecated files
and missing dependencies so to get some things working took a
considerable amount of time. But it was worth it if I succeeded and
accomplished what I set out to do. One of the things was a VoIP phone
application I ported over to the Z from some college project I ran
across on the Internet. The quality of the phone calls was rather poor
using my wifi card but it was fun working on it. This was all before I
discovered Ruby. Now that I am trying to leverage Ruby on the Z I am
interested in the old SL-5500 again. But of course the same old
frustrations due to my lack of proficiency at getting everything
together...sigh...