cool - I'd heard of it, but assumed (from the name) that it was windows only. I'll give it a go. Now I just have to get the thing clean enough to open-source it without embarrassment... :)
- Korny On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:13 AM, Xavier Shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Korny Sietsma wrote: >> Hi folks - just a quick question that might have a quick answer. >> I've been working on a command-line utility written in Ruby (it's a >> tool to find duplicate files/directories in file systems, I'm using it >> to sort through a mass of old backups) >> >> Currently I'm packaging it as a gem, but while that's fine for other >> ruby developers, it's not very friendly for people who just want the >> tool - they need to run Ruby, RubyGems, and (the biggest hurdle imho) >> add something like '/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin' to their path - not really >> very user friendly! >> >> Is there any good system out there for packaging a gem (or a set of >> ruby scripts) into a runnable package? Preferably in a cross-platform >> way? > This has worked for me in the past: > http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/ > > Xavier > >> >> - Korny > > > > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com kornys at gmail dot com on google chat -- kornys on skype "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
