From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-12T11:45:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Q's...

In article <edN%7.661$WM6.170890@e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>,
Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote:
>Welcome...
>
>In article <20020111173607.4d1eb613.wildbill@speakeasy.org>,
>Bill Turner  <wildbill@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>>
>>My biggest question right now is very simple really.  If I design and
>>code a project using Ruby - under Linux - then how would I go about
>>getting that application to run under Windows?  Is there some kind of
>>a "run time" deal like Visual Basic has?  After all, from my
>>perspective, I can hardly expect every person  that wanted to install
>>my application to have Ruby already installed and just sitting there
>>waiting for me. :)
>>
>
>Hmmm... at first I thought the question was how do I get an application 
>written in Ruby on Linux to work under Windows.  Now that I reread it it 
>seems that you want to be able to give someone a Ruby program and have it 
>run under Windows even if they don't have Ruby installed.  To be honest, 
>I'm not sure what the answer is to that question.

I dug around in the RAA and found rbwrap by Robert Feldt.  It might be 
what you're looking for:
                                          
http://www.ce.chalmers.se/~feldt/ruby/applications/rbwrap/

Phil