are you looking for the full rails stack? Or would a ruby-based MVC stack
work for you? Look at http://rhomobile.com/.
I have used them in the past, and they do what you want, but its not a full
rails stack, more like a ruby-mvc subset.

-igor

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM, cipher_neo <l33...@gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks for your reply.
>
> I think you are right in what you say. It would be too much of a
> memory hog to do such a thing.
>
> I will have to have a dedicated server for the hosting of the RoR app.
>
> I am building a point of sale system where the interface is html on a
> tablet pc, so I was digging into my options.
>
> May be best to just access a small linux server over wifi.
>
> On Mar 30, 2:18 pm, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:
> > I'm not aware of such a beast, but one thing to consider is memory and
> > processing speed. We use Rails because it maximizes our (developer)
> > productivity, and it does so at a cost of requiring a fairly studly
> > server to run the back-end. I haven't tried running RoR on anything
> > less than a 1/2 GB VPS.
> >
> > Now when I was just starting out in this tech wheeze, I had an off-
> > cast SE/30 running some Mac Web server, and it was pretty darned quick
> > on the local network. A pal of mine had installed Unix on his, and
> > hooked it to a T1, and could saturate the T with upstream traffic from
> > Apache. But that's static service, nothing dynamic. That SE/30, with
> > its 16MHz 68030 processor, 1 whole Megabyte of RAM, and creaky-slow
> > SCSI 1 hard disk could be speedier than the network when the task was
> > sized to it, but try to get it to also run a database server, an
> > application server, etc. at the same time as all those Web requests,
> > and you would have had a sad little putty-colored puddle.
> >
> > Now you're talking about running the server AND the browser in the
> > same memory- and process-limited environment. I don't think it's
> > realistic to expect this to work well or even at all. I use a beefy
> > Mac laptop to do the same thing for development purposes, but that's
> > orders of magnitude more processing power, available RAM, and storage
> > for data and swap. It's just not even in the same universe. And even
> > that beast can be quite noticeably slower than the same app running
> > from SliceHost over my network connection.
> >
> > Walter
> >
> > On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:13 AM, cipher_neo wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hey guys,
> >
> > > I am building an RoR web app that I would like to have fully contained
> > > in a tablet computer.
> >
> > > I would like to run the server on it, and also use it as the client.
> >
> > > Is this possible with any tablet computers out there at the moment?
> > > I really am aiming to get it working on the android tablet, but any
> > > tablet that allows you to install ruby and run a server would
> > > suffice.
> >
> > > any help appreciated!
> >
> > > Lee
> >
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