From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T22:47:29+09:00
Subject: Re: run Ruby from a CD in MS Windows

On Thursday 06 October 2005 07:31, smartpig wrote:
> I am new to Ruby.
> I have a project that requires running an application from CD without
> pre-install software on a user's pc (Windows OS). I was planning to use
> java but the jre is too large (about 50 mg). My client want the
> application + its runtime lib/engine less than 10 mb.
> I like try Ruby but I don't know if Ruby can meet my client's
> requirement?
> I installed Ruby 1.8.2 on my pc, it takes about 30 mb space. Since my
> application need only do a few simple things such as: check Windows
> registry, create a socket to talk to another application and openning a
> dialog box. I think I only burn a few dlls and ruby scripts to the CD
> but I don't konw which are need. Can some give me a guide? Thanks for
> help!

You can package up your ruby application plus ruby and everything needed with 
Ruby2Exe, which will come out to be quite small, and a regular windows 
executable.  Plop that on your cd and you're done.

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html