brabuhr / gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 3:38 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter / sun.com> wrote:
>> John Joyce wrote:
>>> Hey Mr. Nutter...
>>> Any idea if JRuby will work on Android???
>>> Sure would be cool to have a Ruby angle on phone software, even though
>>> there is no Android phone yet...
>>  From a cursory glance at the SDK, I'd say...yes!
>>
>> I'm not sure yet if everything we need is there, but it would be
>> considerably easier to bring JRuby up on Android than on Java ME. Most
>> of the packages I expected to be missing are present...so I think
>> there's a good chance it could be made to run.
> 
> A simple test: adding jruby-complete.jar onto the dex call in build.xml:
> 
> dex:
> 
>      [exec] UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:
>      [exec] com.google.util.ExceptionWithContext: address not yet known
>      [exec]    at
> com.google.util.ExceptionWithContext.withContext(ExceptionWithContext.java:46)
>      [exec]    at
...

Looks like a bug in Android SDK. It's deep into Google's code from 
something of ours that shouldn't be doing anything too weird...

- Charlie