I recently purchased a Nokia 770 wireless Internet Tablet (http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,75023,00.html) and a few days ago I successfully ported Ruby 1.8.4 to it. For those of you who are unfamiliar w/the 770, it's Nokia's first such non-phone product (or so they claim): a very nifty hand-held "PC" that among other things runs a pared down version of Linux (from kernel.org, debian package), has built in wifi and bluetooth, includes email client, Opera browser, RSS client, audio and video, all displayed on an 800x480x16bpp display. The 770 will sense any available wifi connection and jack in effortlessly. And, if you have a bluetooth-ready cell phone, the 770 can jack into that too and provide an internet connection via GPRS anywhere your cell has a signal (very cool indeed.) Before porting Ruby to it, it was love at first sight. Now I'm ecstatic.

Short description: Ruby 1.8.4 port to Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Category: Ports/ARM

Ruby Port to Nokia 770 Internet Tablet using Maemo cross compiling development environment. This project differs from the available Ruby debian efforts in that root access to the Nokia 700 is NOT required to install Ruby.