From: Michael Morin <uzimonkey@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T02:39:56+09:00
Subject: Re: A general doubt

Rock Roll wrote:
> If I am developing a Windows application in Ruby using FxRuby or WxRuby,
> compile and create the executable, will i need ruby in another computer
> in order to run the standalone application? Sorry if my question is so
> silly.

It's not silly, it's a genuine concern.  Having users install Ruby and a 
handful of libraries just to run your program is a concern, especially 
if they're not computer savvy.  Giving them a standalone exe will be 
much better.

I've never done this on Ruby, but I have with a few Perl programs. 
There were some programs like "perl to exe" that would bundle your Perl 
programs, any required libraries, etc with a perl interpreter into a 
self-extracting exe.  You simply ran the exe to run the program.  A 
quick google tells me something like this exists for Ruby:

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/

But I'm sure someone here has done this and can give you some more 
specific advice.

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