Ruby is the only programming language I’ve ever looked at that I understood what was going on the moment I saw it. (With python, on the other hand, I had the completely opposite reaction.) This matters for someone like me, since I only write a simple program every six months or so and consequently have to relearn most of the language every time I write a program.

I’m glad to see ruby ported to the Nokia 770. Maybe I’ll manage a few lightweight programs (”hello, world” worked for me just now :-).

At any rate, you can download ruby from rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/8726/ruby-1.8.4.nok770d.tar.gz. As noted in the Application Catalog, installation does not require root access. The readme file tells you to put the file on your mmc card and, in XTerm, to enter a specific command to untar it. Note that the readme file instruction has two typos in it when specifying the file name.

Thanks to Ken Hilton for doing this!

Now for a really dumb plea for help. How do I “Modify your path to include: /var/lib/install/usr/bin”? Part of my brain keeps resisting storing this type of information. How come there’s so much memorization and typing in linux?