From: Todd Jacobus Date: 2008-08-23T13:43:49+09:00 Subject: How do I make an autonomous program? First, I would like to ask you all to excuse a Ruby-newbie question. I'm very new to Ruby and, in fact, very new to programing at all. But anyway... I've finally finished this program which reads latitude and longitude data, and various other attributes, from a file and formats it automatically so that it can be imported into some GIS software. It's an awesome program, but how do I make it autonomous, so that it doesn't have to rely on the interpreter? Or rather, how can I get the program and the Ruby interpreter to work together away from the path in which I installed it? I'd really appreciate the advice. I've exhausted all on-line tutorials I can find, and I'd rather not ask my supervisor to download Ruby so he can use the program.... Thanks! Todd -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.