From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T06:16:02+09:00
Subject: Re: The guy who wrote RubyScript2Exe needs to seriously reconsider how this little "gem" works...

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:55:10 +0900, Ruby Maniac <rubymaniac@gmail.com> wrote:
> RubyScript2Exe seems to need to trace the actual execution of this
> script before placing it and all of its code into an .EXE however this
> process, if this is the process, should not be required since all Ruby
> code that uses "requires" keywords would be adding in code, yes ?

Unfortunately, simply scanning for calls to require is insufficient
since:

 1. require is not the only way to load scripts

 2. require may be called dynamically (c.f. Rails)

-mental