# Ruby on gumstix

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-gumstix/72215>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 23, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-gumstix/72215 "2006-02-23T06:21:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_VanderWerf)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-gumstix/72215/1 "2006-02-23T06:21:56Z")

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Looks like I will have a chance to play around with a small fleet of  
Gumstix ([http://www.gumstix.org/](http://www.gumstix.org/)). Does anyone have any experience with  
ruby on them? (They have linux 2.6 on flash, Intel XScale processor, and  
gcc 3.4 toolchain, so it seems hopeful…)

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**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_VanderWerf)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-gumstix/72215/2 "2006-02-23T11:35:40Z")

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On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:43:49PM +0900, Hal F. wrote:

> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
> > Looks like I will have a chance to play around with a small fleet of  
> > Gumstix ([http://www.gumstix.org/](http://www.gumstix.org/)). Does anyone have any experience with  
> > ruby on them? (They have linux 2.6 on flash, Intel XScale processor, and  
> > gcc 3.4 toolchain, so it seems hopeful…)
> 
> Duuude. I’m drooling here.
> 
> If I had infinite time, I’d be sticking Linux add-ons to my  
> toaster and coffeemaker.

You don’t need infinite time but something easy to port 🙂

[NetBSD Toaster Powered by the TS-7200 ARM9 SBC - embeddedTS Blog](http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm) (porting report &  
technical details)  
[wickedways.org :: NetBSD at LinuxWorld 2005](http://wickedways.org/articles/linuxworld2005/) (toaster pics)

That thing is no ADDON. NetBSD is _driving_ the toaster. And oh yeah.  
Ruby  
should run on it, too 🙂

Regards,

-Martin

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**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_VanderWerf)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-gumstix/72215/3 "2006-02-23T10:44:24Z")

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Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Looks like I will have a chance to play around with a small fleet of  
> Gumstix ([http://www.gumstix.org/](http://www.gumstix.org/)). Does anyone have any experience with  
> ruby on them? (They have linux 2.6 on flash, Intel XScale processor, and  
> gcc 3.4 toolchain, so it seems hopeful…)

Duuude. I’m drooling here.

If I had infinite time, I’d be sticking Linux add-ons to my  
toaster and coffeemaker.

Hal

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**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_VanderWerf)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-gumstix/72215/4 "2006-02-24T01:54:49Z")

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Hal F. wrote:

> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
> > Looks like I will have a chance to play around with a small fleet of  
> > Gumstix ([http://www.gumstix.org/](http://www.gumstix.org/)). Does anyone have any experience with  
> > ruby on them? (They have linux 2.6 on flash, Intel XScale processor, and  
> > gcc 3.4 toolchain, so it seems hopeful…)
> 
> Duuude. I’m drooling here.
> 
> If I had infinite time, I’d be sticking Linux add-ons to my  
> toaster and coffeemaker.

Well, to answer my own post, it looks like ruby is buildable, and may  
make it into the standard set of tools:

[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg\_id=14489331](http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14489331)