# Ruby on mobile devices?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-mobile-devices/62492>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 5, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-mobile-devices/62492 "2006-06-05T16:01:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![capnregex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@capnregex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capnregex)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-mobile-devices/62492/1 "2006-06-05T16:01:19Z")

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Hi,

Anyone seen any work on running Ruby on mobile devices like mobile  
phones? In theory I guess something like JRuby could be used for this  
but has there been any real work done? Why should it / should it not  
work?

Thanks for any info,

Robert F.

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**Author:** ![capnregex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@capnregex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capnregex)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-mobile-devices/62492/2 "2006-06-05T21:33:17Z")

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Robert F. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Anyone seen any work on running Ruby on mobile devices like mobile  
> phones? In theory I guess something like JRuby could be used for this  
> but has there been any real work done? Why should it / should it not  
> work?

I’ve had some luck with ruby on gumstix, which have ARM/XScale  
processors. Dynamic loading and sockets still have some problems,  
though.