Ruboto: Ruby in your Pocket

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A Ruby runtime for Android is real: Ruboto uses JRuby and the Android SDK plus rake and rvm to let Ruby scripts become activities services and broadcast receivers via ruboto-core and generated Java glue. Built demos include an IRB app and an accelerometer “photo booth” that works but has a ~7–10s hello world startup and a ~10MB JRuby payload because heavy reflection slows startup. For production speed and no runtime jars the compiled option is Mirah which loads instantly.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 15:54Accelerometer Demo
3. 24:16Scripting Layer for Android
4. 25:13Great project Different approach

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