From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-12-06T11:36:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby App Distribution


On Dec 5, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Joe L wrote:

> I guess there really aren't many options right now.  A cool  
> solution would be an executable format like jar that worked on all  
> platforms that was ruby specific.
>
> I feel like using a jar is a Java solution, while it might work...  
> it's not Ruby.  Someone else suggested using a Gem, but I don't  
> want to require that of people.
>
If you want it to be available to those who don't already have  
RubyGems installed or even the Ruby interpreter, then you'll have no  
choice but to use the JRuby jar approach, or to package the thing for  
each platform.
With OS X (10.5) you don't have much work to do, depending on what  
you need, the windows version might be reasonably easy too.
Linux? varies