This project brings mruby to the browser. It uses [emscripten] (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) to compile the mruby source code into JavaScript and runs in the browser.
Please refer to this tutorial for how to use webruby.
Currently this is still a toy project. Though several demos have been created, it hasn't been used in a production environment. Feel free to play with this, but please give it a complete evaluation before using it in your real-world project.
About LLVM: Currently if you are installing LLVM using homebrew, the default version installed is 3.3. However, emscripten only works with 3.2 nowadays. So you may want to go to here, download the binary pack for your OS, extracted and define a local environment variable LLVM containing the bin folder of the extracted files. This will tell emscripten to use this version of LLVM.
For Mac users: The latest version of emscripten uses python2 as the default python interpreter. If you are using a Mac and rely on the default python. Please add a link from python to python2 before building:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2
- webruby irb - A nice-looking full-fledged webruby irb. Thanks to @joshnuss for his work!
- Webruby tutorial - minimal example of webruby project, a full description is at here
- mruby - This is only a minimal demo of web irb, if you want to try out mruby in a browser, I strongly suggest the demo above.
- geometries - a WebGL example using webruby, mruby-js and three.js. NOTE: from a practical point of view, I agree that this can be easily implemented using JS. However, this demo shows how easy it is to interact with the JavaScript environment using Ruby.
This project is distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for further details.