From: Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@...>
Date: 2009-03-27T06:29:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Shipping a gem with jruby.jar


On 26 mars 09, at 17:23, Eric Hodel wrote:

> 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.
>
>


Sorry for the confusion.  I don't want someone to have to separately  
install Ruby or JRuby.   Since JRuby comes in a jar that isn't a  
problem.   I can run a script using just using jruby.jar.   What I  
don't know is how to get such a script to be able to access a gem.