From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-07-25T01:32:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Running a Ruby installation off a CD (under Windows)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Ohlsen [mailto:harryo@qiqsolutions.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 3:40 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Running a Ruby installation off a CD (under Windows)
> 
> 
> I've written some stuff I'd like to show to someone who 
> doesn't already have Ruby installed.
> 
> So, I plan to try copying an install of Ruby for Windows onto 
> a CD-ROM.  My stuff is purely console-based, so all I need is 
> ruby.exe and the libraries (and relatively few of those, I guess).
> 
> I'm asuming I can create a batch file to set up the 
> appropriate environment variables to allow ruby.exe to find 
> the libraries (although, that will presumably require 
> tweaking, to stick in the drive letter of their CD-ROM).
> 
> Before I start hacking at it, has anyone tried to do this 
> before?  If so, any advice?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Harry O.

The closest thing I can think of is the Live Demo CD that Steven Gibson
talked about at RubyConf 2002.

http://rubyconf.org/speakers.php

No idea what the status is.

Regards,

Dan