# First public release of RubyJS (0.7.0)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-public-release-of-rubyjs-0-7-0/134388>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 10, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-public-release-of-rubyjs-0-7-0/134388 "2008-04-10T13:34:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeln](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaeln](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaeln)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-public-release-of-rubyjs-0-7-0/134388/1 "2008-04-10T13:34:37Z")

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Hi,

I’m pleased to announce the first public release of RubyJS (a Ruby to  
Javascript compiler) and the availability of RubyJS as a RubyGem:

gem install rubyjs

rubyjs -h

```
 Usage: rubyjs_gen [options] [file, [file, ...]]
     -r, --require LIBRARY Require the LIBRARY before
                                      executing your script
     -I, --load-path DIRECTORY Specifies load path
     -P, --platform PLATFORM Specifies platform
     -m, --main CLASSNAME Entry point
     -e, --eval STRING Eval code
     -a, --append JSCODE Append Javascript code
     -o, --output FILE Filename to write output to
     -O, --opt OPTION Set a specific compiler option
         --show-options Show all compiler options
     -d, --debug Turn on debug mode
     -h, --help Show this message

```

To see it “live”, execute it’s test-suite inside your browser:

[http://www.ntecs.de/projects/rubyjs/test/browser.test.html](http://www.ntecs.de/projects/rubyjs/test/browser.test.html)

Or go to it’s project page (where you can’t see much atm):

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyjs](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyjs)

Right now there are only two (small) examples (which you can find in the  
examples/ directory of the distribution):

[http://www.ntecs.de/projects/rubyjs/examples/hw/index.html](http://www.ntecs.de/projects/rubyjs/examples/hw/index.html)  
[http://www.ntecs.de/projects/rubyjs/examples/ex1/index.html](http://www.ntecs.de/projects/rubyjs/examples/ex1/index.html)

The generated Javascript code has been tested on a variety of browsers,  
including Firefox 2.x, Opera 9, Internet Explorer 7, Safari 3 (and  
Safari 2, Konqueror in the past). It even runs on a mobile phone as  
is demonstrated here:

[http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/04/10/rubyjs-goes-mobile](http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/04/10/rubyjs-goes-mobile)

There is a Google Summer of Code project application (which I hope will  
be accepted), whose plan is to port Google Web Toolkit to RubyJS.

Best regards,

Michael