From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-07-25T05:59:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Running a Ruby installation off a CD (under Windows)

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 02:32, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> 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.

Thanks Dan.  However, the big selling point of that CD seems to be that it's a 
complete bootable Linux system that also has Ruby installed.  I'm looking to 
do this under Windows (because that's the target machine).

I think I should be able to achieve what I need by doing my setup on a network 
share and getting one of my colleagues, who doesn't have Ruby installed on 
their machine, to try it.  Once I get it working that way, I'll burn it to a 
CD and see if it still works.  It will probably take a couple of tries, I 
guess.

Even once it's finished, I'm probably going to have to copy the batch file off 
the CD onto the target PC, to edit it for the right drive letter of their CD 
ROM drive.

By the way, what would be useful to me would be to know what, if any, core 
DLLs are required ... or does ruby.exe contain everything, apart from the .rb 
files (and possibly some DLLs) in the the ruby lib directory tree?

Anyway, I'll let the list know how I go.  If I can get something working, 
maybe it can be the starting point for a demo CD.  You'd probably want to get 
as many of the libraries, like FXRuby and the Windows-specific libs, on there 
to make the demo as impressive as possible.

Harry O.