From: Lars Christensen <larschbelunktumdk@...>
Date: 2009-04-17T17:01:56+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 1.3.2 and Rubyscript2Exe

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 07:24, David Mullet wrote:
>>
> How does rubyscript2exe work?  I can't find gatherlibs, Gem::Specification,
> anything:
>
> $ gem unpack rubyscript2exe
> Unpacked gem: '/Users/drbrain/tmp/rubyscript2exe-0.5.3'
> $ ack gatherlibs rubyscript2exe-0.5.3/
> $ ack Specification rubyscript2exe-0.5.3/
> $ ack Gathering rubyscript2exe-0.5.3/
> $
>
> It seems to be constructed of magic feathers and fairy dust.

It extracts its own source code from an embedded tar file (in realstuff.rb).

For those interested, I have made my rubyscript2exe replacement,
"Ocra", available on github.com (http://github.com/larsch/ocra).
Testers are welcome.