From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T00:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: running applications installed from gems

On 6/15/06, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I'm really after is a simple way for a non-programmer to install
> and run a Ruby application that is packaged as a gem.

It's already done.

Seriously. Try it with Ruwiki or Text::Hyphen. Or PDF::Writer. In
PDF::Writer, a stub for the executable "techbook" is installed
appropriately. It will run the latest version of the software by
default, but you can select a specific version, too.

-austin
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