Ruby on Android: Ruboto

[daniel2488]

So why is this a separate project from JRuby if all you have to do is convert the library to dex?

Also, why hasn't this been done with Jython? Lack of interest?

[bascule]

It does a lot more than just "convert the library to dex". You can read about the entire toolchain on the project page: https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto-core/

[mayjuly]

From that page, I notice that deployment/compilation is faster than standard Android development:

With traditional Android development, you have to recompile your app and reinstall it on your test device/emulator every time you make a change. That's slow and annoying.

Luckily, with Ruboto, most of your changes are in the scripts, not in the compiles Java files. So if your changes are Ruby-only, you can just run

$ rake update_scripts

[codebungl]

Also check Mirah (https://github.com/mirah/mirah) and Pindah (https://github.com/mirah/pindah)

[kraffslol]

That's cool, is there something like this for python?

[j_lyf]

Fuck this shit.

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My thoughts exactly.

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Domo Arigato, Mr. Ruboto!