From: bbiker <renard@...>
Date: 2007-02-13T07:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyScript2EXE Not Functioning

On Feb 12, 3:35 pm, Richard Manning <mithrandirm...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> Erik Veenstra wrote:
> > Please cat your hello-world.rb.
>
> > gegroet,
> > Erik V. -http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/
>
> My script originally consisted of the following line:
>
>  puts "Hello World!"
>
> However, it still does not work when I insert these lines at the top:
>
>  require "rubyscript2exe"
>  exit if RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.is_compiling?
>
> I would love to get this to work -- rubyscript2exe seems like a great
> program.
>
> Thanks!
>
> :Rick:.
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

rubyscript2exe works.

For example: type in the following program
#---------------------------------------------
#!c:/ruby/bin/ruby
require "rubyscript2exe"
exit if RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.is_compiling?

puts "Hello Ruby World"
#---------------------------------------------

Note that for such a short program the require and exit statements are
not needed!!!
They are only needed if the script has a long running time.

The problem with these two lines comes when you want to run the
hello.rb script.

compile the program.
C:\Documents and Settings\...\default_project>rubyscript2exe hello.rb
Tracing hello ...
Gathering files...
Copying files...
Creating hello.exe ...

invoke the executable
C:\Documents and Settings\...\default_project>hello
Hello Ruby World

please note the sizes of the files.
dir hello.*
 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\..\default_project

02/12/2007  04:42 PM         1,553,436 hello.exe
02/12/2007  04:33 PM               143 hello.rb