# Mobile support?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mobile-support/225706>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [January 24, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mobile-support/225706 "2013-01-24T16:34:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mobile-support/225706/1 "2013-01-24T16:34:51Z")

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Is it possible to use IronRuby to write apps for Windows Phone, Surface,  
and/or Windows 8 Metro?

Are there sample programs for this?

–  
Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker  
[www.yellosoft.us](http://www.yellosoft.us)

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 10:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mobile-support/225706/2 "2014-01-11T10:29:50Z")

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Hi,

It used to be possible in some kind of way on WP7. Not sure what  
happened  
and how will it work on WP8 or later.  
You can try look at this article:  
[Going Places - IronRuby on Windows Phone 7 | Microsoft Learn](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff960707.aspx) (bare in mind it  
was  
written more than 3 years ago, so I’m sure it wouldn’t work as is).

There is the Iron7 app for WP (  
[Microsoft Apps](http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ruby-iron7-free/8a866ec2-461b-e011-9264-00237de2db9e))  
which lets you write ruby scripts on the phone via IronRuby. I’m not  
sure  
if this is open-source but at least we can be confident that IronRuby  
does  
work on WP 🙂

Good luck,  
Shay.

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Shay F. | CodeValue [http://codevalue.net/](http://codevalue.net/) Founder, Web Division  
Leader | Microsoft Visual C# MVP | Author of IronRuby Unleashed  
Blog: [http://IronShay.com](http://IronShay.com) [http://ironshay.com/](http://ironshay.com/) | Twitter:  
[http://twitter.com/ironshay](http://twitter.com/ironshay)