# Ruby and Mobile

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-mobile/89182>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 18, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-mobile/89182 "2007-03-18T07:27:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SunRaySon)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-mobile/89182/1 "2007-03-18T07:27:45Z")

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Are there any ruby applications that are written for mobile devices  
and is there any good framework that helps in developing applications  
for mobile devices.

Kiran K.

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**Author:** ![SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SunRaySon)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-mobile/89182/2 "2007-03-18T08:28:48Z")

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On 3/18/07, SunRaySon [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Are there any ruby applications that are written for mobile devices  
> and is there any good framework that helps in developing applications  
> for mobile devices.

I’ve written some Ruby applications that use Rails to deliver SMS  
applications running under Kannel. I think you are after something  
different, which may be running Ruby on the mobile device itself. I  
haven’t heard much about that but most of the devices now will not run  
such a heavy interpreter process comfortably.

– G.

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**Author:** ![SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SunRaySon)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-mobile/89182/3 "2007-03-18T08:36:49Z")

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SunRaySon wrote:

> Are there any ruby applications that are written for mobile devices  
> and is there any good framework that helps in developing applications  
> for mobile devices.
> 
> Kiran K.

There is the WinCE version of Ruby, which some people have gotten  
working on their mobile devices (do a search for those). Other than  
that, I don’t think there is much.

-Justin

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**Author:** ![SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SunRaySon)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-mobile/89182/4 "2007-03-18T14:06:21Z")

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le 18/03/2007 07:26, SunRaySon nous a dit:

> Are there any ruby applications that are written for mobile devices  
> and is there any good framework that helps in developing applications  
> for mobile devices.
> 
> Kiran K.

There is an official symbian version of Ruby here :  
[http://developer.symbian.com/main/tools/opensrc/ruby/part2.jsp](http://developer.symbian.com/main/tools/opensrc/ruby/part2.jsp)

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**Author:** ![SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SunRaySon)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-mobile/89182/5 "2007-03-18T14:12:22Z")

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Le dimanche 18 mars 2007 07:26, SunRaySon a écrit :

> Are there any ruby applications that are written for mobile devices  
> and is there any good framework that helps in developing applications  
> for mobile devices.
> 
> Kiran K.

I’m not sure that it will be useful for you, but some programs on the  
gp2x are  
written in ruby. Gp2x is a handled console from corea running linux on  
ARM  
processor. The ruby interpreter runs on it, and some libs too, like  
rubygame.

I have a gp2x, but I haven’t tried yet… I’ll take some time to play  
with  
ruby on it, one day 🙂

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**Author:** ![SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@SunRaySon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SunRaySon)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-mobile/89182/6 "2007-03-19T15:18:15Z")

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This is very encouraging. I am looking at something like this for a  
while as I am not very comfortable with high level languages like  
C/C++ and Java. I am very thankful to all of you for your inputs on  
this mail.

Now I have another question in this regard. I would like to try some  
sample applications to get myself familiar with the mobile environment  
(I would definitely try the samples on the Symbian website). Can  
anyone suggest some good applications / libraries / exercises so that  
I can get familiar with mobile computing environment.

Thank you all once again for your contributions.

Kiran K.