An interpreter for the dynamic programming language Ruby has been ported to run on Google’s Native Client (NaCl) platform, a technology for sandboxing native code in web browsers. The port is primarily the work of ‘yugui’, a.k.a. Yuki Sonoda, a Google engineer who serves as release manager for Ruby 1.9.

MobileRuby – A Slim Framework for Developing Your iOS Apps with Ruby MobiRuby is relatively new open source endeavor by Yuichiro MASUI who works for Appcelerator the company behind the popular Titanium platform to write native iOS, Android apps in JS. MobiRuby is built on top of mruby making it the first demonstration of what motivated developers can do with Matz new implementation. MobiRuby aims to replace Objective-C/C/Java on mobile platforms with Ruby, just like you can use Lua or Mono to build apps on those platforms. MobiRuby will be available under the Apache License 2.0.