From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2011-09-25T13:23:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Distribute Ruby GUI App (Shoes)

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This is the unfortunate current situation. Red shoes is the only one with a
packager, and I don't know of plans to make one for green. There's no great
other solution to this, you've enumerated basically all the options.

Someday, I want to extract the red shoes packager for everyone, but there's
a lot of work to do before that's possible.
On Sep 24, 2011 4:38 PM, "Maximilian S." <hisako1337@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I am creating a ruby gui app with shoes (or green_shoes), but my problem
> is that I can't find a good way to distribute it to my friends. The App
> has some dependencies, like activerecord and everything the shoes
> framework/toolkit needs, and this is a problem for me.
>
> The absolutly easiest solution i found was the shoes packager which
> should do exact what I want: build a single standalone executable for
> the 3 mayor OS. But (i don't know why), the executable created with this
> packager depends on an old version of rubygems, so it can't install gems
> like active_record (which needs at least rubygems 1.3.6) on the target
> machine.
>
> The other option is to use the green_shoes gem, which works similar, but
> there is no packager i can use, so there would just be the "usual"
> options to package the app. I spent the last days googling this problem,
> but found NO viable solution for this.
>
> - rubyscript2exe: since i need the current ruby 1.9.2, it's no option
> for me
>
> - ocra: i develop on a linux machine (ubuntu) and want to distribute my
> app to all the 3 mayor OS. ocra is windows only, so it is no working
> solution for me.
>
> - crate: seems to be dead (and far too complex for me, sorry)
>
> - exerb: my japanese skills are very low, i just recognized that it
> depends on ruby 1.8.7 and wasn't updated for a while.
>
> - jruby and its possibilities are nice, but i want to use MRI for some
> reasons, especially green_shoes which depends on gtk2.
>
> So I ask you, what is the ruby way to solve my Problem?
>
> TL;DR: develop (green_)shoes app on ubuntu, want to build executable for
> linux/windows/osx.
>
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