# Ruby on mobile devices?

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-on-mobile-devices/27993>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [5 June 2006 13:57 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-on-mobile-devices/27993 "2006-06-05T13:57:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robert\_Feldt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@Robert\_Feldt](https://rubytalk.org/u/Robert_Feldt)\
**Post date:** [5 June 2006 13:57 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-on-mobile-devices/27993/1 "2006-06-05T13:57:40Z")

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Hi,

Anyone seen any work on running Ruby on mobile devices like mobile  
phones? In theory I guess something like JRuby could be used for this  
but has there been any real work done? Why should it / should it not  
work?

Thanks for any info,

Robert Feldt

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**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Joel_VanderWerf1)\
**Post date:** [5 June 2006 19:30 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-on-mobile-devices/27993/2 "2006-06-05T19:30:39Z")

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Robert Feldt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Anyone seen any work on running Ruby on mobile devices like mobile  
> phones? In theory I guess something like JRuby could be used for this  
> but has there been any real work done? Why should it / should it not  
> work?

I've had some luck with ruby on gumstix, which have ARM/XScale  
processors. Dynamic loading and sockets still have some problems, though.

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