From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T00:51:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: Packaging JRuby

G. Ralph Kuntz, MD, MS wrote:
> What are  the options for packaging a JRuby script? I tried the
> tutorial from netbeans for making a JRuby Swing application, but it
> fails to run; it gets the following error: -e:1:in `require': no such
> file to load -- /scripts/main (LoadError). I realize that the tutorial
> actually has a bug in it; it refers to the 'swingjruby2.scripts'
> package in the text, but 'scripts' in the dialog boxes.
> 
> I would like to package JRuby scripts that I am writing to run as
> utilities on remote machines that I manage. The machines have the JVM
> on them, but JRuby is not installed. I would also like to be able to
> send the utilities to customers. They too have the JVM, but no JRuby,
> and I cannot expect them to install it (they are computer naive).


Take a look at rawr.  It's intended to make it snake-simple to package 
up JRuby apps as .exe, .app, or as an executable jar.

   http://rubyforge.org/projects/rawr/


for the gem.


Actual source code is hosted on gitorious:

   http://gitorious.org/projects/rawr



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