From: Duane Morin <dmorin@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T04:17:14+09:00
Subject: Rubyscript2Exe directory management

I'd like to use rubyscript2exe to move over a Ruby application and its 
environment to a production box that will be run by a sysadmin.  As such 
he needs some control over things like where the app installs itself, 
and the ability to modify the config.yml file I've associated with the 
app.  I don't really have a handle on what I can and can't control. 
This is a windows box, by the way.

For instance, the app and everything about it seems to install itself 
relative to c:\documents and settings\user\local settings.... blah blah 
blah.  I would rather be able to tell it exactly where to uninstall 
itself.  Possible?  I suppose I can set the TEMP environment variable, 
but that seems like a hack that I wouldn't be too excited to write in 
the official instructions.

Second, I can't "just extract" the app.  I try running with the 
--eee-just-extract flag and I get this:  COuldn't create directory 
c:\temp\C:/ApplicationDirectory

where c:\ApplicationDirectory is what my present working directory was 
when I ran the original rubyscript2exe executable.  Just thinking aloud, 
can I manipulate either the appdir or userdir variable during the 
is_compiling phase to change this?  How do I make the extra C:\ go away 
so it is a legal directory?

Is there any way to tell the app that it's ok to use the directories 
specified?  For instance in my config.yml file if I want to say datadir: 
d:\client\data\ftp or something like that, I can't seem to get it to 
work properly.  I think it is looking for this directory relative to the 
temp area where the app installed itself, which is not what I want.

Thanks for any help!

Duane

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