From: mully <david.mullet@...>
Date: 2007-02-07T23:55:12+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyScript2EXE Not Functioning

On Feb 6, 10:16 pm, Richard Manning <mithrandirm...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> I've just downloaded Erik Veenstra's RubyScript2EXE, but it does not
> seem to work correctly at all. Here's what I've done:
>
> 1. I downloaded the latest rubyscript2exe.rb to my working folder, with
> the .RB to be packaged (in this case, hello-world.rb).
>
> 2. I opened a command prompt, navigated to the working folder, and ran
> the command "ruby rubyscript2exe.rb hello-world.rb".
>
> 3. There is a very brief pause, and the line "Tracing hello-world ..."
> appears. Whatever process that seemed briefly to be running appears to
> quit, and a glance at the Windows Task Manager shows no activity. I'm
> left with just a blank line, as though the program is asking for input,
> though nothing I type elicits a response except CTRL-C, at which point
> the following is spit out:
>
> Couldn't execute this command (rc=256):
> c:\ruby\bin\ruby -r 'rubyscript2exe.rb' -I
> 'C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2
> rubyscript.d.3712.1/rubyscript2exe' -I
> 'C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2ruby
> script.d.3712.1' -I 'c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8' -I
> 'c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_r
> uby/1.8/i386-msvcrt' -I 'c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby' -I
> 'c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8' -
> I 'c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32' -I '.' -I 'C:/Documents and
> Settings/Owner
> /My Documents/Rick's/Ruby' -I
> 'C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.
> 3712.1/rubyscript2exe' -I
> 'C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3712
> 1/rubyscript2exe' -I
> 'C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3712.1/r
> ubyscript2exe/lib' -r
> 'C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/tar2rubyscript.d.3712.1/r
> ubyscript2exe/require2lib.rb' 'hello-world.rb'
> Stopped.
>
> I've found no similar problem to this anywhere online, so I'm tempted to
> think I've made an egregious oversight somewhere.
>
> Thank you very much!
> :Rick:.
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

You might try including the following at the end of your require
statements:

    require "rubyscript2exe"
    exit if RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.is_compiling?

This is per section 3.4 of Erik's documentation:

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

Mully