From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T11:43:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk and OS X--deployment question


On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:58 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Kevin Walzer wrote:
>
>> I'm learning GUI programming with Ruby/Tk on Mac OS X (10.4.9).  
>> How does one
>> deploy standalone Ruby applications on OS X, especially if you are  
>> not using
>> Ruby-Cocoa? Is there a tool like py2app (Python) that gathers up the
>> libraries and frameworks and scripts and generates a standalone  
>> app bundle?
>
> google rubyscript2exe.

Although the RubyScript2Exe website mentions OS X support, it seems  
to be very experimental. How well does it work on OS X?. Can you make  
a double-clickable .app package with it?

I have been able to use Automator to make a Finder launchable app  
that runs a Ruby/Tk script. I was even able to install my own Finder  
icons (.icns) into it. Doing it with Automator is somewhat kludgy and  
the resulting package has about a 220 KB footprint, but process is  
simple and reliable.

Regards, Morton