From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T14:10:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Palm OS?

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby for Palm OS?"
    on Thu, 6 Oct 2005 04:14:07 +0900, Shashank Date <shanko_date@yahoo.com> writes:

|Have you looked at this:
|
|http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/
|
|It is in Japanese, so I cannot tell what it says (like the other cool projects listed there).
|If somebody could translate that (babelfish gave me an error 157, whatever that means :-()

For your information, it's not about the attempt to run Ruby on Palm.
It is rather helping Palm users using Ruby, for example creating
Plucker or Doc files using Ruby.

The current implementation of Ruby would not run on Palm, since it
highly depends on POSIX system calls, most of which are not available
on Palm.  I'd rather recommend to get a Linux Zaurus instead, if you
want to run Ruby on a small device.  Theoretically, it is possible to
run even Ruby on Rails on Zaurus, if you don't mind waiting.

							matz.