From: Erik Veenstra Date: 2004-07-31T09:41:41+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] AllInOneRuby On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:16:57 +0900, James Britt wrote: > Erik Veenstra wrote: > > > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 05:43:15 +0900, James Britt wrote: > > > > > Or bundle AIOR with some Ruby GUI app, and kick the whole > > > thing off with a .bat file that launches AIOR, passing in > > > my Ruby application? > > > > Don't mix the term "Ruby" and the term "Ruby with all the > > other stuff" (like Fox libraries, TCL/TK libraries, etc). > > I'm talking about "Ruby". > > I'm having a hard time, then picturing a concrete use for > this. Hmmm... I made it because I had concrete use for it. Not the other way aroung... An example. My boss expects me to program on his IBM mainframe. That's where he pays me for. Nowadays, 3270-emulators are used as terminals, instead of the good old green screens... Big Blue gave us HLLAPI (High Level Language API), which is a way to program the interaction with the emulator, although the emulator still thinks it's a human-being that is in control. Over the years, I made a lot of scripts to cope with tests, quick downloads, ditto upload, log filtering, etc. My colleagues are not stupid and say "That's nice! Can I have it." So they need Ruby, but not necessarily a full blown installation. Besides that, it's not possible to install anything on our machines. There's not much more than a network share and a tempdir. So I bound .rb to H:\allinoneruby.exe ... > Can you give some examples where this works better than, say, > exerb? Did I say it was better?... At least, it's simpler... gegroet, Erik V.