From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T07:04:56+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby versus Tk

On 4/9/08, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 06:15 +0900, Alex DeCaria wrote:
> > I'm also concerned with portability.  If I write a nice app that I want
> > to share with someone else, and if they are not a knowledgable computer
> > user, which GUI library would be easier for me to talk them into
> > installing on their machine so they can run my application?  Am I
> > correct in thinking that FXRuby comes as part of the Windows 1-click
> > installer?  That would be an advantage.
>
> Windows-wise, I wonder if rubyscript2exe:
>
> http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/
>
> would do the trick.  Does it also gather up all the native dependencies?
> If so, maybe it'll pull together FOX and the FxRuby bindings and provide
> you with a nice exe that folks can just run without even needing to
> install Ruby...
>
Yes, this works well (although the executable can get large).
I created a flash-card quiz program as a stand-alone Windows
executable using FxRuby, RMagic and rubyscript2exe.

-Adam