From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-08-20T11:24:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on the iPhone

On Aug 19, 2007, at 19:09, Evan Light wrote:
> Anyone else out there realized that Ruby has been compiled for and now
> runs on the iPhone?  If you have an iPhone, go visit this site:
> http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/.  Installer.app will help you
> easilly install a terminal and Ruby (!!!).  Just go to /usr/local/bin
> and play.  I did a tiny bit of benchmarking myself just for giggles.
>
> http://evan.tiggerpalace.com/?p=30

Nearly this same message was posted two weeks ago.

> Granted that I haven't played with SWIG yet but I wonder how it would
> do for wrapping UIKit. I imagine that it's not nearly as simple as it
> sounds.

Wouldn't RubyObjC be far more appropriate?

http://www.rubyobjc.com/

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