From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T00:40:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Ruby Application

On Jan 26, 8:19 am, Tony Meier <ton...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've tried adding a launcher script into /bin and adding it to the
> gemspec like this
>
> spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
>   s.name = 'appname'
>   s.version = '0.0.3'
>   s.summary = 'desc'
>   s.description = %{desc}
>   s.test_files = Dir['test/*.rb']
>   s.bindir = 'bin'

You also need to specify the executable(s) inside the bindir that you
want installed:

s.executables << 'my_app_name'

You don't even need it to have a .rb extension if you have a shebang
line at the top.
(Even works on Windows.)
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -KU