From: Sharon Phillips <phillipsds@...>
Date: 2007-07-06T20:14:33+09:00
Subject: Oh the pain! Distributing Ruby apps

Hi,

I've written some small Ruby apps for monitoring things at work but  
am not enjoying distributing them.
Seems for each person I have to install Ruby, then the extra  
libraries I use (currently just ori8 and net-ssh). I'd like to write  
a gui front end, but shudder at the thought of then having to install  
qt / fox / whatever.

Am I missing something here? Do I have to do this for each machine in  
order to just let someone else run a Ruby script?

How can I lessen the pain?
Is it possible to install the libraries on the LAN and each machine  
run them from there?
I don't mind installing the Ruby interpreter and I even like Scite  
(with modified a ruby proffile :), it's the extra stuff I'm talking  
about.
I've tried rubyscript2exe (we're talking Windows boxes), and it seems  
to work fine for some things but breaks the Oracle bindings.

I've considered a web app, but I don't have access to a place to  
serve it.

Cheers,
Dave