tips on deployment/distribution, esp on OS X?

[Tom Nakamura]

I'm developed an application with Ruby, and it uses Tk as well as
BioRuby and a few other 3rd party extensions. Is there a canonical of
packaging such an application for mac osx (most important), linux, and
windows? They prospective end user probably won't be very 'savvy' so I
want to make it as seamless as possible.
Tom N

 

[Logan Capaldo]

I'm developed an application with Ruby, and it uses Tk as well as
BioRuby and a few other 3rd party extensions. Is there a canonical of
packaging such an application for mac osx (most important), linux, and
windows? They prospective end user probably won't be very 'savvy' so I
want to make it as seamless as possible.
Tom N

RubyCocoa[1] has a neat little wrapper that you can use to turn ruby
scripts into MacOSX app bundles. For a more guiish approach you can
also use Platypus[2] which will create nice Mac OS bundles as well. On
windows(and Mac and Linux) of course you can use Ruby2Exe[3].

[1] http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus
[3] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html