14.9. Miscellaneous Scripting Tasks
There are a few tidbits left over. These are uncreatively classified as “miscellaneous.”
14.9.1. Single-File Ruby Solutions
There are occasions where you may want a quick or temporary Ruby installation. You might even want to distribute Ruby along with your program as a single executable.
We’ve already looked at Ruby Installer, the “one-click installer” for Windows platforms. There are plans (immature at the time of this writing) to make Linux and Mac OSX versions of the installer.
Erik Veenstra has also made significant progress in packaging Ruby itself as well as Ruby applications. He is the author of AllInOneRuby, Tar2RubyScript, and RubyScript2Exe (all of which can be found on his site at http://www.erikveen.dds.nl ...
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