Comments on: ruby on rails on nokia N900

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:31:39 +0000

Thanks so much. I’ve been searching to find if the N900 had this capability. I no longer have excuses for not buying!

By: Giulio Turetta

Giulio Turetta — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:06:03 +0000

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=590398
this link brings you to maemo talk forum’s post where you can find info about precompiled ruby libs for n900 like ruby-mysql, ruby-sqlite3 and more! Enjoy!

By: Giulio Turetta

Giulio Turetta — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:22:47 +0000

Hi Tomasz! I dont know if _all_ ruby packages are optified. I think that official repo can only include optified packages but for other packages maybe… at the moment I have only packages from official repository so i cant incestigate about that. what I can say at the moment is, after my personal experience, that you have to make attention about rubygems. it’s required (or not?) to run rails and every gem talks about mb and mb… and mb… and mb :/
I dont remeber very well but you can install gems on another path and you also have to skip rdoc documentation generation. happy hacking!

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:03:32 +0000

I’m wondering is it “optified”… where does Ruby installs it’s packages… to the system partition (what would take away precious space) or /opt “partition”?

By: Giulio Turetta

Giulio Turetta — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:43:25 +0000

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!

By: meikel

meikel — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:43:28 +0000

Unfortunately Rails works but gets no database connection and thus is quite useless. Sqlite3-ruby or mysql cannot be installed.

Cheers
Michael