From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T21:27:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Stripping down One-Click Ruby Installer folder for deployment

Luis Lavena wrote:
> 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 :-)

I've asked for just a "core Ruby" distro in the past (i.e. no stdlib 
even), but Matz was less than enthusiastic about it.

Regards,

Dan