From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2011-01-27T17:51:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Deploying "double-clickable" ruby scripts on OSX

Instead of the cwd you seem to need File.dirname(__FILE__).

Top-posted from my iPhone

On Thursday, January 27, 2011, Phil Henley <dantes990@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a menu driven ruby script to copy some files from servers to
> local machines.
>
> I'd like to be able to deploy this to OSX users in as pain-free a way as
> possible... preferably they could just double click the script and have
> it launch in Terminal and do its thing.
>
> I've tried accomplishing this a few different ways and ran into some
> problems.  Here's a quick breakdown:
>
> 1.  Tried associating "Terminal.app" to .rb files via the OSX Get Info
> dialog and adding a reference to the ruby shell at the top of the
> script.  This works, but the script needs to reference its current
> location via the Dir.getwd method and this method always returns the
> users Home folder (regardless of the scripts actual location) when it is
> ran this way.
>
> 2.  Tried simply renaming the script and giving it the '.command'
> extension along with a reference to the ruby shell.  This works, but has
> the same problem as associating .rb files to Terminal.
>
> 3.  Tried using script-to-app converters such as Platypus and ScriptGUI.
> Platypus doesn't allow me to interact with my scripts menu and ScriptGUI
> is returning errors that I could maybe iron out, but it doesn't really
> seem worth the battle.
>
> Any ideas how to get around this problem?  Seems like I might need to
> find a different approach to getting the current working directory.  I'd
> just prefer not to go mucking around with those parts of the script as
> they work fine on Windows and also when ran from Terminals command line
> on OSX.
>
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