On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:28:00 Manuel Souto Pico wrote: > Hello!! > > I'm thinking about using Ruby/Shoes (everything other than Shoes.app is > Ruby, right?) to develop a GUI that takes input from user and interacts > with another program's API to create some files according to the user's > selected options (yes/no, list items, some paths to files... > edit_lines?, etc.). It seems Shoes could do the job. However, before > starting I need to know whether it's possible to convert the final > program to a executable file (program.exe) that I can distribute to > Windows users for them to run it clicking on it without the need to have > Ruby or Shoes installed. How can I do that? How easy is it? How well > does it work? > > I hope you can answer this basic question. Thanks a lot and keep it cool. > > Cheers,
Simple answer is a BIG YES!!! more complete answer is that you can create a Linux & Mac versions!!! at a command prompt type this in and press enter/Return shoes -p the above command will give you the Shoes compiler screen from which you can select what type of BINARY program you wish to generate (WINDOWS, LINUX, MAC or Shoes very own SHY file). In Linux you have to sue the --p (but i stand to be corrected on that). HTH Dave.
