Bradley, Todd
11/5/2004 5:41:00 PM
When I started learning Ruby a few weeks ago, I decided I wanted to be
able to program from "anywhere" so I bought one of those USB flash
drives and put all my source code and documentation on that. I have
Ruby installed on my work desktop, my home desktop, and my home laptop
now so I just take my USB drive around with me and whenever I feel the
urge, I can work on my code. I realize that's not quite what you're
asking for, but it's a simple solution that works for me.
Todd.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian.yamabe@gmail.com [mailto:brian.yamabe@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Mobile Ruby
>
> First, I'm not talking about Ruby on mobile devices. I'm
> talking about being able to program in Ruby from anywhere.
> As a developer I've always been resigned to the fact that I'd
> be tied to a specific machine (laptop or desktop). I
> couldn't just go off and borrow someone elses computer to do
> some development without installing runtimes, ide's, editors,
> libraries, etc. Then this morning I thought, why not? Isn't
> a wiki just a brain-dead remote source code repository. Why
> not execute that repository? Obviously there need to be some
> configuration layers added and an editor tailored to
> programming, but the basic concept isn't a huge leap.
>
> I'm not the brightest bulb in the draw, so I figure someone
> must have thought of this before. Has anyone implemented it?
> Ruby seems like an ideal candidate for doing this kind of work.
>