# WinCE Edition of Ruby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wince-edition-of-ruby/49235>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 1, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wince-edition-of-ruby/49235 "2005-12-01T18:15:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![thomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@thomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thomas)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wince-edition-of-ruby/49235/1 "2005-12-01T18:15:18Z")

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Hi,

I have a PPC with Windows Mobile 2003, and have downloaded the WinCE  
edition of Ruby, from [ruby-mswince](http://uema2.s8.xrea.com/ruby-mswince/). The  
problem is that I don’t know how to run it - when I click on my pocket  
PC it doesn’t seem to do anything. My PPC also doesn’t have a command  
line interface, so maybe I need a special application for it?

Thank you,

Thomas

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**Author:** ![thomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@thomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thomas)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wince-edition-of-ruby/49235/2 "2005-12-01T18:59:52Z")

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Thomas wrote:

> Thank you,
> 
> Thomas

There are a couple of utilities that are needed. Google for ‘Pocket  
CMD’ and you should be on your way!

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**Author:** ![thomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@thomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thomas)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wince-edition-of-ruby/49235/3 "2005-12-01T20:21:18Z")

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gregarican wrote:

> > Thank you,
> 
> > Thomas
> 
> There are a couple of utilities that are needed. Google for ‘Pocket  
> CMD’ and you should be on your way!

Actually here’s the link →   
[http://www.symbolictools.de/public/pocketconsole/applications/cmd/](http://www.symbolictools.de/public/pocketconsole/applications/cmd/). The  
caveat I would offer is the ruby-mswince environment isn’t 100%  
reliable. You will get some errors when working with strings and other  
items. At least I did, which left me at a dead end trying to port a  
Ruby application over to Pocket PC.