[LRUG] FYI: Ruby for Symbian OS Released

[Tom Ward]

Thanks for that, I'm going to try this out when I have the time.

Tom

On 21/11/06, Romek Szczesniak <romeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://developer.symbian.com/main/tools/opensrc/ruby/index.jsp
>
> Ruby for Symbian OS
> Introduction
>
> Symbian is releasing Ruby for Symbian OS to the Open Source software
> developer community. Ruby for Symbian OS brings the power of the Ruby
> programming language to the Symbian ecosystem under the terms of this
> Licence Agreement.
>
> The package includes the Ruby source code (based on Ruby 1.8.5),
> bundled in a straight forward launcher application. An initial
> prooof-of-concept module has been added also. Documentation and
> example code will be added in the future as the project evolves.
> Why Ruby?
>
> Ruby for Symbian OS is being released in advance of an upcoming series
> of articles about Runtime Environments on Symbian OS.
>
> Ruby is a powerful dynamic language that reaches the heights of the
> pure Object Oriented Programming paradigm and gives a wealth of
> language features like exceptions, blocks, closures, regular
> expressions, collections, meta-classing and much more.
>
> Whilst no mass market application has yet to come from that direction,
> what does look certain is that Ruby is enjoying a growing popularity
> in different developer communities. Within these communities, there's
> also a curiosity to see how certain tasks can be coded elegantly or
> easily with dynamic languages.
> Symbian's role in the Ruby project
>
> This project is another step in the evolution of Ruby, and Symbian is
> happy to provide this code to the open source community, which can
> then decide on how Ruby will evolve as a mobile platform.
>
> The large collection of Ruby resources means that Symbian does not
> need to teach the Ruby language. However, it is our intent to suggest
> a framework to extend Ruby with mobile libraries.
>
> While the Ruby language will give you the computation and techinical
> playground, the mobile libraries which you can create will be the
> actual enablers to a variety of applications such as games, tools,
> PIMs and much more.
>
> Symbian will provide the project with an initial proof-of-concept
> (POC) library that can do:
>
>     * Rendering
>     * Messaging
>     * Persistence
>
> The POC will be available for S60 and UIQ.
>
> http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/files/S60_Ruby_3rd.zip
>
> Romek
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