From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T03:53:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Relocatable Ruby executable

Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I create a relocatable Ruby executable?  Meaning, that I can
> distribute a copy of it along with the modules I need with a binary app
> I am embedding Ruby into.  I'm considering both actually programatically
> embedding Ruby into my app using libruby.a or whatever, as well as
> making my app an extension library run by the Ruby executable - if you
> could give details of both, I'd be grateful.
> 
> Thanks
> 

Are you aware of rubyscript2exe? It packages the interpreter + libraries
you require + your main script file. I've been very happy with it.

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

This is for the ruby extension approach, but not the embedding approach.

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