From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2010-07-19T00:15:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Shoes: Self-contained?

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Hey Terry-

I've been learning to use Shoes.


Awesome!


> This is fine

for me, the developer, but it seems like there should be some way to
> start Shoes and the application in one command, so I can make this a
> little simpler for my end users.


There is! Check out the source for Hackety Hack:
http://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack

To build it, you run 'rake APP=path/to/hackety/hack' from within the shoes
directory, and then 'rake APP=/path/to/hackety/hack installer' to create an
installer. This will build your program as a single binary.

The only downside... there's NO documentation on this. Hackety is the only
piece of software that is distributed this way, as far as I know. It's on my
list of things to do before the release of Shoes 3.

But if I attempt to run "./shoes2.run
> <application name> Shoes says that the application does not exist.
>

Did you run it as 'application name' or 'application file.rb' ?

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