Ironruby core - Sep 2009 - whats the best way to package deploy a Ruby app to windows??? (no UI, also standalone if possible)

Hi,

Whats the best way to package deploy a Ruby app to windows??? (no UI,
also standalone if possible)    Does ironruby help out here?  (I''m
guess no, and that ironruby would be more for if you wanted to hook
into the .net classes?)

In other words a tools I can create a normal windows installation
package, or self extracting package, so that non-techo''s who get the
installation can run it in seemlessly.  Would need to be stand alone
(i.e. no requirement for them to have installed Ruby themselves).

Thanks

Both IronRuby and Ruby are fairly stand-alone, so an installer could just put
the necessary DLLs, exe, and any needed libraries/gems into the installation
directory, along with the application being installed. The One-Click installer
gives you a bunch of other stuff, but all you should need for Ruby is here:
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32.zip.
And IronRuby''s latest release is here:
http://ironruby.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=30914#DownloadId=77408.

~Jimmy
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> Subject: [Ironruby-core] whats the best way to package deploy a Ruby app to
> windows??? (no UI, also standalone if possible)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Whats the best way to package deploy a Ruby app to windows??? (no UI,
> also standalone if possible)    Does ironruby help out here?  (I''m
> guess no, and that ironruby would be more for if you wanted to hook into
> the .net classes?)
> 
> In other words a tools I can create a normal windows installation package,
or
> self extracting package, so that non-techo''s who get the
installation can run it
> in seemlessly.  Would need to be stand alone (i.e. no requirement for them
> to have installed Ruby themselves).
> 
> Thanks
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