From: Jarmo Pertman <jarmo.p@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T22:33:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby file to Executable file -- for all OS

Louis-Philippe wrote:
> there is rubyscript2exe which would do it for windows at least:
> http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/

Sorry for bringing up old thread, but how come you didn't notice on 
rubyscript2exe web page: "RubyScript2Exe transforms your Ruby 
application into a standalone, compressed Windows, Linux or Mac OS X 
(Darwin) executable."

The only thing is that you have to make this executable on all of these 
OS-es separately. So, you run rubyscript2exe in Linux and in Windows and 
you get 2 different executables - one for Linux, other for Windows. As 
it's normally almost with every other applications.

Anyway, you should give it a try. Since it includes all the necessary 
libraries for your application + Ruby itself, then there's no need to 
install Ruby specifically, which makes it a lot easier for non-techy 
people to use your application.

Also, when I tried to create .exe on Windows (I had quite small Ruby 
application), it's size was about 2MB - nothing significant in today's 
world, is it?

Jarmo
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