From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T02:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Stripping down One-Click Ruby Installer folder for deployment

On Oct 22, 9:35 am, "Philippe Lang" <philippe.l...@attiksystem.ch>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to deploy an client ruby application by copying the "c:\ruby"
> folder to the target computers.
>
> It works fine, except that c:\ruby is 177 MB big, and full of things
> that are not necessary at all on client computers.
>
> I have tried keeping the following folders:
>
> - "c:\ruby\."
> - "c:\ruby\bin"
> - "c:\ruby\lib"
>
> It works, but I'd like to know if anyone has a more "scientific"
> approach to that problem. What folders are absolutely needed?
>
> Note that I know about rubyscript2exe.rb; it works just fine for small
> applications, but it's not an option in this case.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Philippe

Phillipe, most of the used space is wasted on documentation (in the
form of yaml for RI and .html for Rdoc).

Those are located in lib\ruby\gems\1.8\doc and the share\ri
\1.8\system

Also, try removing gems that you don't need for it.

I know, isn't "scientific" nor bulletproof, but will work :-)

HTH,

Luis