From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T11:21:33+09:00
Subject: Re: best way to distribute?

Jeremy McAnally wrote:
> 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

Ruby 1.9, XRuby, IronRuby, Ruby.NET, and Rubinius run Ruby as compiled 
bytecodes all the time (ok, you could say a bytecode interpreter, but 
it's still a big step beyond walking an AST). JRuby includes a mixed 
interpred/compiled mode for execution by default along with "all 
interpreted" and "all compiled" modes. In fact, as far as I know, Ruby 
1.8 is the only version that's "only" interpreted at this point...all 
other versions have compiled execution.

- Charlie