From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2008-12-02T04:21:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] crate 0.1.1 Released


On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce that Crate, the project I spoke on at RubyConf
> this year, has reached a releasable stage.
>
>  gem install crate
>
> Crate is a tool to help package up your application as a custom static
> build of the ruby interpreter plus all dependant binary extensions.
> All the pure ruby code (the ruby application, the ruby stdlib, etc) is
> packed into one or more SQLite databases.
>
> The final distributable pieces are a single executable and a few  
> SQLite
> databases which can be then wrapped up appropriately as an OS X App; a
> self extracting executable for Windows; a shar archive, rpm or tarball
> for Unixes.
>
> Project:  http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/crate/
> Tutorial: http://copiousfreetime.org/articles/2008/11/30/package-an-application-with-crate.html



	This project is pure awesome, that is all.

Thanks
Ezra Zygmuntowicz
ez@engineyard.com