From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T21:18:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Browser applications (applets, flash...) with Ruby?

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:00:41PM +0900, francis.rammeloo@gmail.com wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Is it possible to write applications in Ruby and let them run in an
> internet browser, just like you could with applets or flash? Preferably
> without the user having to install a special plug-in...
> 
You would definitely need a special plugin, to directly run ruby on the
browser.
> Has it been done? Would this be possible with JRuby?
> I'd appreciate your insights a lot, please share them.
> 
It might be possible with JRuby, if the browser has a JVM plugin and you
could send a verison of the JRuby interpreter down the pipe that would
be happy with the security restrictions on applets.

Another option is to try rb2js [1], which translates ruby into Javascript,
which can then of course be run in the browser.

[1] http://rb2js.rubyforge.org/