config FREETZ_PACKAGE_RUBY bool "Ruby 1.8.6-p111" default n help Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro "matz" Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming. He has often said that he is "trying to make Ruby natural, not simple". Ruby is simple in appearance, but is very complex inside. http://www.ruby-lang.org/ This package contains - the Ruby interpreter (ca. 800 KB stripped size), - the interactive Ruby console (irb), - the full Ruby API, i.e. all *.rb modules (ca. 4.7 MB), - all *.so extension libraries (ca. 1.0 MB stripped size). These may also be linked in statically or not built at all, but there is no menuconfig option for it. Do this yourself according to Ruby's README if you like. I.e. in total we have about 5.5 MB of installed files of which you may strip away unneeded ones from packages/ruby-1.8.6 manually as you see fit. Do this after "make precompiled", but before "make". By the way: Ruby modules are well compressible, so the full monty just needs about 1.3 MB inside the firmware image. So even if you are not working with Downloader CGI or NFS root, Ruby may well fit into your image along with several other packages, if you have an 8 MB box. ATTENTION: You should have installed the same Ruby version on your host in order to be able to successfully build the target version!