From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-09-15T06:35:47+09:00
Subject: Re: whats the best way to package deploy a Ruby app to windows??? (no 	UI, also standalone if possible)

On Sep 14, 11:00 pm, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whats the best way to package deploy a Ruby app to windows??? (no UI,
> also standalone if possible)
>
> In other words a tools I can create a normal windows installation
> package, or self extracting package, so that non-techo's who get the
> installation can run it in seemlessly.  Would need to be stand alone
> (i.e. no requirement for them to have installed Ruby themselves).
>

Wrap your program/script around Ocra:

http://ocra.rubyforge.org/

Install the gem, and the execute your script with ocra.

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena