From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T04:00:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Handhelds


M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I went poking around in the Ruby 1.8.5 pre something source last night
> looking for something else and discovered that there are at least some
> hooks for Windows CE. You need the SDK, of course, but it looks like at
> least it's possible to get Ruby up and running on a Microsoft handheld.
> I'm not by any stretch of the imagination an embedded/handheld
> developer; I'm more focused on the other end of the spectrum.

True. There is a wince subdirectory in the Ruby source going back
awhile. There are even references to a pocketruby implementation
intended for such mobile platforms. But I think it went by the wayside
years ago. As far as I know versions of Microsoft mobile OS'es more
recent than Windows CE 3.0 are dicey at best for supporting Ruby. I
spent days trying to compile various Ruby versions from source to get
them running on Windows Mobile 5.0. Finally I gave up and went with
Python to get my mobile CRM app working on Windows Mobile PDA's.