From: Jeremy McAnally Date: 2007-12-20T13:29:08+09:00 Subject: Re: best way to distribute? Ruby is an interpreted language at this point, so you have no choice but to pair it with an interpreter of some kind, whether it be MRI Ruby, Rubinius, JRuby, or whatever. You could always just package a no-install version of Ruby with your application, stripping out any libraries you don't use. You could also look into somehow using miniruby: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general/68084 --Jeremy On Dec 19, 2007 11:08 PM, Joe wrote: > I found this hard to believe too. > > I was hoping for at least a cross platform packaging format, similar > to jar for Java but specific to Ruby. > > > On Dec 19, 2007 7:54 PM, Pavel Pvl wrote: > > well it seems as tho i can;t really figure out how to use > > rubyscript2exe, but i emailed the creator. im still trying to get jruby > > to work. But seriously for such a language, it's hard to believe that > > there isn't any 'standard' compiler. > > -- > > > > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > > > -- http://www.jeremymcanally.com/ My books: Ruby in Practice http://www.manning.com/mcanally/ My free Ruby e-book http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/ My blogs: http://www.mrneighborly.com/ http://www.rubyinpractice.com/