From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-04-08T23:37:13+09:00
Subject: Re: "Portable" Ruby

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Both are quite easy to do.

Since it's a portable app you probably want a windows distribution.

AFAIK the distribution from InstantRails would work as "portble" out of the
box.

It would take some tweaking (mainly a bat file for the environment
variables) to get the OneClickRuby to become portable.

Have you heard of Ruby2Exe?

Aur Saraf

http://RubyMentor.rubyforge.org/

On 4/8/07, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm wondering if it's feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
> "Portable App" (along the lines of http://www.portableapps.com).  The idea
> is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes entirely from
> removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the machine it's run on
> -- no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.
>
> What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run from
> my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter being far
> more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I'd use it on.
>
>   --
> *Michael T. Richter* <ttmrichter@gmail.com> (*GoogleTalk:*
> ttmrichter@gmail.com)
> *In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know
> the man. (孔夫子)*
>
>

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