From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T03:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: best way to distribute?

On 12/20/07, Ron Fox <fox@nscl.msu.edu> wrote:
>   Starpacks are executables that
> consist of the intepreter, necessary compiled packages, and a virtual
> file system appended to the back end of the executable that contains the
> script, scripted packages and loadable binaries.
>
>   A similar sort of thing for Ruby might be a _good_ thing.  The
> seminal paper on starpacks and the related starkit (the virtual
> filesystem unbundled from the run-time) is at:
>

Isn't this exactly what rubyscript2exe does?
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/