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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: lareya on February 20, 2005, 01:26:05 pm

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: lareya on February 20, 2005, 01:26:05 pm

Just want to know who uses Ruby, and what kind of developement environ you use, command line, vi, VisiScript or Komander, etc.  Or do you use it on your linux/win/desktop machine and then port to the Z?

Just want to know how big Ruby is in the Z world.

Thanks!

Lareya

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: iamasmith on February 20, 2005, 01:33:01 pm

Well I started to learn Ruby and was using my Z for it using VisiScript, I then ran foul of the standard learning exercise... needed a project to apply it to.

I think I might come back to Ruby if I encounter a project that does nearly everything I need but I need to modify it.

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: lareya on February 21, 2005, 02:21:53 pm

So it is just the two of us then? How disappointing!  I was hoping there were a few more of us Ruby learners/users

Lareya

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: ev1l on February 21, 2005, 05:11:54 pm

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So it is just the two of us then? How disappointing!  I was hoping there were a few more of us Ruby learners/users

I'm about to start on a project using Ruby on Rails as a backend. Don't know a thing about Ruby yet (which is why i took the project in the first place).

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: jim-in-baltimore on February 21, 2005, 06:26:03 pm

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So it is just the two of us then? How disappointing!  I was hoping there were a few more of us Ruby learners/users

I'm about to start on a project using Ruby on Rails as a backend. Don't know a thing about Ruby yet (which is why i took the project in the first place).
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Ruby looks great for object oriented stuff.  I have a serious hankering to learn it.... unfortunately, it comes out nearly dead last in execution speed when compared to things like python & perl.  I hear that the parrot engine (which is the underlying engine for perl 6)  is going to get a ruby front end.  In that case, all languages which have a parrot front end interface (they might be calling it a language module or some such techospeak) will have the same execution speed.    I've seen a number of perl types praising ruby.  If you've written perl with objects, you'd know why.

I checked on ruby under parrot recently, and, the project doesn't appear to be  making progress.  I guess the parrot internals are still their focus.

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: vputz on February 22, 2005, 09:57:14 am

Beautiful language.  But, being a collector of obscure languages (OCaml, Eiffel, etc), when it comes to the sort of things I would use Ruby for, I wind up turning to Python instead.  Having such a huge standard library and user base makes Python just more compelling, which is almost a pity, because I think Ruby is a cleaner, more elegant language.  Ah well.

-->VPutz

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: padishah_emperor on February 22, 2005, 08:40:57 pm

I dabbled for a while, I colleague who was a fan of it told me about it and I had a play under solaris, I've been playing more with objective-c though.

Is Ruby on the Z?? Could someone point me to the place, I'd imagine it would work on my device too with a little convincing.

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: lareya on February 22, 2005, 10:19:03 pm

I think this is the latest on SourceForge
Ruby for Zaurus (http://http://sourceforge.jp/projects/zaurus-ja/files/?release_id=5690#5690)

At least that is where I got mine

Lareya

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: rgzu on February 23, 2005, 09:24:08 pm

Most of these languages are more complex than I need so I was very happy once I managed to get a version of REXX working on my zaurus :-) It even works with visiscript up to a point.

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: DeGT on February 24, 2005, 06:02:39 am

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I think this is the latest on SourceForge
Ruby for Zaurus (http://http://sourceforge.jp/projects/zaurus-ja/files/?release_id=5690#5690)

At least that is where I got mine

Lareya
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hmm, this link doesn't work for me. I am always being redirected to microsoft.com  

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: lareya on February 24, 2005, 05:26:17 pm

My bad, I must have screwed up the link. Try this or if it doesn't work google sourceforge + zaurus + ruby. That is how I found it again.

Zaurus Projects (http://sourceforge.jp/projects/zaurus-ja/)


HOWEVER, the ms page is all on your side of the fence!  

Lareya

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: MtnMichael on April 10, 2005, 06:16:20 am

Just noticed this thread (haven't been to this site in a while) and I use Ruby for quite a few things.  Really like the language.  Currently developing a server side app (using my Z as the testing ground) and have some ideas for development for the Z community.  :-)

I just got done compiling source from the latest stable releast (1.8.2) directly on the Z.  I have a Sharp 3.10 ROM.  Compiler I used is this one:
http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1467 (http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1467)

I'd be happy to pass along build if anyone is interested.  It compiled clean right from the start.  :-D

- Michael

Title: Who Uses Ruby?
Post by: lareya on April 10, 2005, 06:03:46 pm

Sounds good !
The latests ruby seems to be hard to find. can you U/L it to the ZSI software site? That way it can be found easily by all.

I am still going through the tutorials, and also experimenting with rails.  I am truyly a noob, so it is slow going, but so far I think it is great, however, I don't have much to compare it with.

Lareya