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
>
>
> >
>



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