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Ruby for Symbian OS released

Categories: Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, November 19th, 2006 at 7:26 PM

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

Source: Caffo’s VOX Dilemma

Now I know I’ve heard the term Ruby before, it’s frequently used by marketing departments at "Web 2.0" start-ups, to prove that they are the bleeding edge of tech. Here is what Wikipedia has to say on what exactly Ruby is:

Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. It combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like object-oriented features, and also shares some features with Python, Lisp, Dylan and CLU. Ruby is a single-pass interpreted language. Its main implementation is free software distributed under an open-source license.

Source: Wikipedia

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • cyke64

    hello ,

    You must compile it yourself :(

    I didn’t succeed in compile it. I thinks it’s impossible with file provided !
    What’s a pity ! They’d better to do as Nokia provide a sisx file !!!!

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Well have you tried asking the guys hosting the source for some assistance? Linux hackers are usually the nicest people if you just ask them for some advice.

  • smoog

    an update is available from
    developer.symbian.com/main/tools/opensrc/ruby/part2.jsp