From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T04:53:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Stripping down One-Click Ruby Installer folder for deployment

On 10/23/07, Philippe Lang <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> wrote:
> This is the script I use. It strips down the c:\ruby directory from 179
> MB to 51 MB on my computer, and apparently, everything works. It is
> still very big, but acceptable, especially when compressed in RAR: 14.3
> MB.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> $OLD_PATH = 'c:\\ruby'
> $NEW_PATH = 'c:\\ruby_stripped'
>
> require 'fileutils'
>
> FileUtils.rm_rf($NEW_PATH)
> FileUtils.mkdir($NEW_PATH)
> FileUtils.cp_r($OLD_PATH + '\\bin', $NEW_PATH + '\\bin')
> FileUtils.cp_r($OLD_PATH + '\\lib', $NEW_PATH + '\\lib')
> FileUtils.rm_rf($NEW_PATH + '\\lib\\ruby\\gems\\1.8\\doc')
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If anyone is able to strip down the c:\ruby directory for deployment
> even more, your help is welcome!

You may try (but not I am not sure if this will work, I *guess* it
will be regenerated on demand):

FileUtils.rm_rf($NEW_PATH + '\\lib\\ruby\\gems\\1.8\\cache')
FileUtils.rm_rf($NEW_PATH + '\\lib\\ruby\\gems\\1.8\\source_cache')


If you don't plan on compiling extensions, you may remove *.lib

Download spacemonger to see what are the largest files/dirs.

You may strip more stuff, depending on what do you need - there's a
lot of stuff for TK for example, just make sure your stuff still runs
;-)