From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2005-10-05T08:56:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Does YARV bring us closer to Ruby for embedded machines

You don't have to use J2ME for developing on these units. I just
finished up work on a CRM app written in Ruby that I ported over to a
Embedix Linux ARM processor PDA and am going to try to port it over to
a Windows Mobile 5.0 ARM processor PDA next. That should be a good
challenge. Ruby is working on the Windows Mobile 5.0 test unit I'm
working on, but the GUI toolkit inclusion is another matter :-)

I know that the complete Ruby fileset takes up a decent amount of space
and it doesn't work as lean and mean as a Ruby VM executing bytecode,
but for my distributions I included only the core Ruby files and
extensions that my app requires. It wasn't that large of a distribution
for my app's installation. Of course being able to package everything
into bytecode to pass to a Ruby VM would be even more of a win...