From: Will Parsons <oudeis@...>
Date: 2010-05-25T07:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Does rubyscript2exe still work?

John Allen wrote:
> Mark Marksest wrote:
>> I'm trying to get rubyscript2exe to work.
>> 
>> I'm using 1.8.6 on Windows 7 x64
>> 
>> I've been searching around and every tutorial either has different
>> directions then the last or is way outdated and wont work.
>> 
>> Could somebody tell me if this gem still works? If it does please point
>> me in the right direction. As of now I'm frustrated due to hours of
>> pointless searching so could somebody please help me?
>> 
>> Also, I felt that I should mention that I am still learning ruby and I'm
>> not very advanced yet. So please make any directions basic or easy to
>> follow.
>> 
>> Thank you
>
> You might want to have a look at OCRA (http://ocra.rubyforge.org/). I 
> believe it is still being supported by the developer, unlike 
> rubyscript2exe which was stopped some time ago.

I'm not sure how well ocra is maintained.  It's broken if you want to use
prawn - there's a bug report on this, but no sign of activity.  I had to
find a patched version of rubyscript2exe because ocra didn't work for me.

-- 
Will