From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-07-09T08:56:22+09:00
Subject: Re: best way to make .rb into an executable for linux?

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:04:37AM +0900, David Ainley wrote:
> Ben Bleything wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM, David Ainley <wrinkliez@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >> I see. ???Well I could use that as a last resort I suppose, but won't the
> >> user have to download the entire Ruby language and gems and whatnot if I
> >> go that route? ???Certainly no problem, but it just seems unnecessary.
> > 
> > Yes, that's true.  I think your best bet is going to be to figure out
> > why crate isn't working... does it give you any more output than you
> > pasted above?
> > 
> > Ben
> 
> The error is
> 
> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

This is probably a failure in building the amalgalite gem on your
system.  Crate itself has no native extensions, but it does depend upon
amalgalite.  

With crate, you would still have at least 2 files to ship to your end
user, the executable, and the sqlite database in which all the code
resides.

As the author of crate, I would not currently recommend it for
production use.  It has been a while since I worked on it, and it
has not been kept up to date.  I will eventually get back to working on
it when I have some copious free time. :-)

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org