From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-03-27T06:23:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Shipping a gem with jruby.jar

On Mar 26, 2009, at 14:14, Juan Zanos wrote:
> On 26 mars 09, at 17:08, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 13:13, Juan Zanos wrote:
>>> Is it possible to ship a gem with jruby.jar in a way that jruby  
>>> scripts can access the gem?  I'd like to do so in a way that  
>>> doesn't require installing either ruby or jruby.
>>
>> You need Ruby to install a gem via RubyGems, so I don't see how  
>> this could possibly work.
>
> So shipping a Ruby application that uses a gem is impossible?


You said that you want the gem to install without ruby or jruby.   
Without a ruby interpreter, a gem won't install.

If you already have ruby or jruby, you can use a gem to ship an  
application.