Running ruby at the core of arduino

[CrazyCarl]

can this be done?

[JD Barnhart]

Not really -- the arduino is running compiled C or C++ ....see: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Hacking/BuildProcess

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:55 PM, CrazyCarl <carl...@gmail.com> wrote:

can this be done?

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[BenH]

There is rubygem RAD for creating compiled sketches
While it doesn't actually run ruby it does use a ruby DSL for writing
arduino code.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKbHcMaC_cA

Ben

[BenH]

Not likely. You would have to have a native ruby interpreter running
on a relatively simple platform. From a memory and computing power
standpoint the arduino would spend all it's time running the
interpreter rather than your ruby app. If you had a method to compile
a ruby app this might be a different story. Binary tools today don't
actually compile; rather, they package a ruby interpreter and the code
into an executable.

If someone knows better I'd love to hear that I'm wrong.