Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner

Jim Morris — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:56:11 -0700

I finally got around to building ruby 1.8.6 for my FR. I modified the ruby bitbake files that I found in the Mokomakefile openembedded directory. I am not sure how one actually is meant to do this, as the OE site is down and the docs don't explain it. So I just replaced the 1.8.5 ones with the 1.8.6 ones. I also managed to fix a bug in the 1.8.5 BB recipe that was causing socket to not build.

I also got the ruby dbus library to work, although I don't know what to do with it yet :)

So until I figure out how you are meant to add a new version to OE, I have put the ipk here.

If you want ruby 1.9 you can find it here

To install it just ssh into your FR and type

> wget http://blog.wolfman.com/files/ruby_1.8.6-p287-r1_armv4t.ipk
        > opkg install ruby_1.8.6-p287-r1_armv4t.ipk

If you want to install gem then you need to ssh into the FR and do this...

> wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/38646/rubygems-1.2.0.tgz
        > tar xzvf rubygems-1.2.0.tgz
        > cd rubygems-1.2.0
        > ruby setup.rb --no-rdoc --no-ri

I recommend you do the no doc and no ri otherwise it takes forever.

As for dbus...

> wget https://trac.luon.net/data/ruby-dbus/releases/ruby-dbus-0.2.1.tar.gz
        > tar xzvf ruby-dbus-0.2.1.tar.gz
        > cd ruby-dbus-0.2.1
        > ruby setup.rb config
        > ruby setup.rb setup
        > ruby setup.rb install

look in the examples to see how to use it, I tries this...

> ruby examples/utils/listnames.rb --system
            org.freedesktop.DBus
            :1.3
            :1.4
            org.freedesktop.Avahi
            :1.0
            org.bluez
            :1.1
            :1.6
            :1.2
            org.freedesktop.Hal

So it seems to work.

Let me know what you do with it.

I also built jove, my favorite mini-emacs editor, this is just an executable just copy to /usr/bin Use instead of vi or nano.

UPDATE The bitbake recipe I used to build ruby 1.8.6 is here

"Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner" by Philip Rhoades

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:48:09 -0700

Wolfman, Thanks for that! - I have just got my Neo but I was already missing Ruby! Regards, Phil. (phil at pricom dot com dot au)

"Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner" by rudi

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:47:19 -0700

"bug in the 1.8.5 BB recipe that was causing socket to not build."... could you give me the recipe patch?

"Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner" by wolfman

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:51:53 -0700

If I remember the critical bit to enable sockets is this... EXTRA_OECONF= "--enable-wide-getaddrinfo" I added the bitbake recipe to the article.

Wolfmans Howlings: Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner

Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner

"Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner" by Philip Rhoades

"Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner" by rudi

"Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner" by wolfman