What’s good of mobile gadget if we only use it for PIM and answering phone? Try running Ruby and you’ll see limitless possibility.
In short, you only need 3 basic steps.
- Get a console running
- Grab and install appropriate ruby binary
- Have fun. Go mad.
Devil is in the detail. I’ll try to conduct an exorcism for you here below.
Get console running
WM5 doesn’t come with console (or shell or ‘command prompt’) out-of-the-box. Microsoft offers PPC Command Shell as a part of Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys. It’s made solely for PPC2003 and unfortunately I can’t hack it to run on WM5. So a viable alternatives is to get Pocket CMD with following steps:
- Download and install SymbolicTools PocketConsole.
- Download and install SymbolicTools PocketCMD.
- Restart (soft reset) as necessary.
- Verify that you have operational console. If you can’t make PocketCMD running, edit your WM5 registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Console\OutputTo". Set its value to “0”.
Grab and install ruby-mswince.
The hardest part is that web is in japanesse.
Fear not. Arm distribution usually works. If your PDA’s processor is Intel, Xscale, TI Omap, Samsung then we can safely assume that it’s an arm processor. Or in plain english, if your PDA is 02 or Dopod or HP Ipaq, then it’s arm-powered.
Extract ruby-mswince in your desktop. Copy it into your PDA. I suggest in your root directory named \ruby.
Set PATH environment to include \ruby\bin. To make my life easier, I write it on a *.bat file.
Verify that Ruby works. Do a version check and print out Ruby environment setting.
Have fun. Go mad.
Perform a vivid scream to entire universe: “Yattai!” :D
Oh by the way, why I the heck would I need ruby on my PDA?
So I can try Ruby on my bed.
Udah dicoba gem, ga bisa :). Tapi minimal ada irb dan ri untuk main-main ruby standard. Misalnya: ngecek feed planet-planet, ngurusi cron, bikin 'tail', 'merge', 'diff' dan lain-lain. Kebanyakan nyontek di "Everyday Scripting for Ruby" itu.