Ruby App Distribution

[Joe L]

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Hi,

I was wondering what are the options for distributing a ruby application. Java has the jar and C++ you can compile to an exe. What options does Ruby provide? I'm not looking to distribute anything before the next release. I don't know if something is being added with Yarv to aide in distribution. Any info would be great.

Thanks,
Joe


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[Eric I.]

I was wondering what are the options for distributing a ruby application. Java has the jar and C++ you can compile to an exe. What options does Ruby provide? I'm not looking to distribute anything before the next release. I don't know if something is being added with Yarv to aide in distribution. Any info would be great.

Take a look at: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/ruby.html .

You'll find some options there. Tar2RubyScript packages all the files
that comprise a Ruby program into a single file that can be run on a
machine that already has Ruby installed. RubyScript2Exe goes a step
further, and incorporates the Ruby interpreter and all required
libraries into the single file as well, so the target machine doesn't
even have to have Ruby installed.

Eric

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[James Britt]

Hi,

I was wondering what are the options for distributing a ruby application. Java has the jar and C++ you can compile to an exe. What options does Ruby provide? I'm not looking to distribute anything before the next release. I don't know if something is being added with Yarv to aide in distribution. Any info would be great.

Using JRuby you can package up a Ruby app and distribute it as a
clickable jar file.



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[Jari Williamsson]

Using JRuby you can package up a Ruby app and distribute it as a
clickable jar file.

Is that feature available inside JRuby? How do you do it? I was under
the assumpion that JarJar was needed for that.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson