From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2008-11-04T11:04:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Wrapping ruby into one directory

Cary Fitzhugh wrote:
> Hello --
>
> We're looking at using ruby on a product and I had a question about 
> how to package up the ruby interpreter into one stand-alone directory.
>
> We'd like to have a full ruby interpreter which is not installed on 
> the device.  So that the interpreter can be downloaded on the fly with 
> the ruby scripts, run, and then potentially discarded at a later time.
>
> Almost like ruby2exe but i don't want an exe since we're a linux box.  
> I just want a direectory tree which has the interpreter and all it's 
> ruby libs, etc. inside.
>
> say the ruby interpreter is in /data/bin/ruby/....
> and i have a script foo.rb.  I could just run ./data/bin/ruby foo.rb 
> and have this ruby interpreter run.
> That same directory could be located in /data/bin/ruby/XXXX/  or in 
> another totally different directory as well.
>
> I can include ruby gems by including the gem/lib directory.
> But how do I connect the ruby interpreter with it's /lib/ruby/1.8/...  
> stuff?
>
> Is that directory hardcoded somewhere in the binary?
>
> Sorry I'm not explaining this concept very clearly.
>
> Thanks for any hints.  If this has been discussed before please give 
> me some keywords to search the archive for. I couldn't find anything 
> when I searched.
>
> Thanks,
> Cary
>

I have never used it, but rubyscript2exe is supposed to work on Linux.

-Justin