From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T01:00:57+09:00
Subject: Re: running applications installed from gems

On 6/15/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry to be dense about this, but *how* does the user run the application?

I think what you're suggesting is that the user
1) runs "gem install app-name"
2) navigates to the bin directory of the gem
3) runs a script found there

Is this what you're suggesting?

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.