Yes, we can! ruby on rails works well on nokia n900.
Install ruby from maemo repository (dev).
Download and install rubygems (use –no-rdoc and –no-ri).
Rubygems creates only /usr/bin/gem1.8 so you should create a soft link like this: ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem
Type gem install rails -V and wait.
Now you are ready to start your rails app on nokia n900!
Just run ruby script/server in your project folder. To create a project folder use rails my_app as usual.
Your server may not start if you miss libopenssl-ruby. In this case you get an error about net/https: apt-get install libopenssl-ruby.
Tags: maemo, N900, rails, ruby, Ruby on Rails
11 March 2010 at 3:43 pm |
Unfortunately Rails works but gets no database connection and thus is quite useless. Sqlite3-ruby or mysql cannot be installed.
Cheers
Michael
11 March 2010 at 7:43 pm |
Hi Michael! You can compile sqlite3 with nokia n900 dev environment without problem or you can search about it on maemo talk where another guy posted a link to his personal repository with sqlite3-ruby
happy hacking!