Programming in Ruby [WAS: Re: Freerunner games / using motionsensors in C]

[ramsesoriginal]

Yes, but since we don't have to reinvent the wheel, iasked if someone
alread made it. Also i never wrote ruby for gps/accelerometer,
soarethere somecommon practices/mixins?

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Crane, Matthew <mcrane03 at harris.com> wrote:
>
>  It's dead simple to make ruby bindings, part of what makes ruby nice in
>  the first place.   If you can compile a C program for the moko I bet you
>  could easily make some ruby bindings.
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
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>  [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of
>  ramsesoriginal
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>  Subject: Programming in Ruby [WAS: Re: Freerunner games / using
>  motionsensors in C]
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>
>  Hi there.
>  What about programmin in ruby? Are there already some bindings present
>  to access accellerometers/gps/bluetooth/etc ?
>  If not, are there any plans on making them?
>
>  On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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>  >  Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>  >
>  >  | If somebody tells me how to use the accelerometers, I will have a
>  go. Is
>  >  | it just like /dev/joydev ?
>  >
>  >  You just open /dev/input/event2 (top accel) and/or 3 (bottom).  Have
>  a
>  >  look in <cross path>/usr/include/linux/input.h -- basically these
>  guys
>  >  turn up in there 300 a second:
>  >
>  >  struct input_event {
>  >         struct timeval time;
>  >         __u16 type;    <==== type = 2
>  >         __u16 code;    <==== code = 0=X, 1=Y, 2=Z
>  >         __s32 value;   <==== signed mG force in 18mG steps
>  >  };
>  >
>  >  - -Andy
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