From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T00:14:00+09:00
Subject: Re: relocatable ruby distribution

On 5/3/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> Richard Conroy wrote:
> > OT: This brings me to an issue that I have been pondering for some time:
> > - what is the minimum (file size) configuration of a Ruby Runtime install?
>
> With no gems and no docs included, we have a "jruby-complete" jar file
> that has the full JRuby runtime plus the standard libraries we support
> (most of them) that's around 3MB. Not too shabby for a complete Ruby
> interpreter.

Niiice. Didn't think it would go that low. Its not what I expected, but getting
it *that* lean has implications for say getting a DSL into a Java app. I know
in our line of work the size of the Java runtime is always an issue.

Any resources on trimming the non-essentials? Considering that I *do*
wish to use gems and such. Its one thing to trim out docs & non-essentials
from the 1-click, but I would probably need to install local gems and stuff.

Might be nice if there was a Rake task to do this all.

> java -jar jruby-complete.jar -e "puts 'hello'"

Hmmm ... I am going to have to start messing with JRuby pretty hardcore -
it would map well to some of the Camping I am doing now.