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I wonder if there is any possibility to make a Rails application for Windows CE ?
We need to make an application to run on a data collector that has the Win CE. This device will not have network access (offline/batch)
Has anyone ever had to do such a thing ?
In my experience Ruby on Rails gives a lot of headache to run in windows, not to mention that Rails is a framework for Web (Creates an HTTP server and works all the rest on top of it). It seems to me that it would be much more sensible to use only Ruby (Without Rails) or some other language with less Windows compatibility issues (I personally prefer to avoid Microsoft languages, so I would use something like Nodejs, but microsoft languages can buy you time).
– Fernando Cordeiro
Rails is a framework for web applications. It makes no sense to try to use Rails to make an application for Windows CE as much as it would not use ASP.NET or JSF. What you could do is use Rails on the server side as backend of the app that runs on the mobile device.
– Caffé