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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: jcabrer on April 22, 2006, 10:11:40 am
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I needed this on my Z to bring some Rails work home. Hope someone else finds it usefull. I was going to include gems, but I decided against it since it is not part of ruby itself. I'll put up a separate ipk for it later. If you need gems, it compiles fine from source once you have ruby installed. For those not familiar with gems, it is a package manager like ipkg, but for ruby programs.
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I needed this on my Z to bring some Rails work home. Hope someone else finds it usefull. I was going to include gems, but I decided against it since it is not part of ruby itself. I'll put up a separate ipk for it later. If you need gems, it compiles fine from source once you have ruby installed. For those not familiar with gems, it is a package manager like ipkg, but for ruby programs.
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I've been running Rails on my Z too using SQLite3. I feel a little bit guillty now that I gave up on trying to make an IPK out of it. I've got Subversion, ctags and aspell compiled also but I think that I have seen them available as IPKs too.
The only problem that I've found developing Rails on a Z is that Firefox seems to be the only browser with good AJAX support but it's a bit heavy on RAM.
Incidently does anyone know if something like Ruby or would run noticebly faster on PXA270 equiped machine? I originally thought not which is why I haven't upgraded from my 860 but I read somewhere that the pxa270 had more poke per clock cycle than the pxa255.
Any thoughts?
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The only problem that I've found developing Rails on a Z is that Firefox seems to be the only browser with good AJAX support but it's a bit heavy on RAM.
Incidently does anyone know if something like Ruby or would run noticebly faster on PXA270 equiped machine? I originally thought not which is why I haven't upgraded from my 860 but I read somewhere that the pxa270 had more poke per clock cycle than the pxa255.
Any thoughts?
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My solution to the memory demands of Rails and other development on my Z has been to implement a 512MB swap partition on a cf microdrive. This allows me to use Apache/MySQL/Firefox all together. It also makes it possible to compile code like MAME which has some large objs.