Distributing programs

I'm still a new user of Ruby, sort of trailling it at the
moment.

I've written a program using RealBasic which I can compile
to Windows,
Linux & Mac that accesses and maniuplates MySql
databases.   What I'm
wanting to do is convert that program to wxRuby.

Assuming the program is written and I'm satisfied that it
works how
simple is it to distribute, for people to download and run
it.   For
user's to download it I'm assuming they would have to have
Ruby
installed on their computer.   Is there an easy way to
package things to
Windows, Linux and/or Mac.

Any suggestions welcome.

Steve.
Melbourne, Austrlaia.
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http://www.erikveenstra.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html
may work. I have used it only with console applications till
now.


On 10/5/07, Steven Taylor <listsruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I'm still a new user of Ruby, sort of trailling it at
the moment.
>
> I've written a program using RealBasic which I can
compile to Windows,
> Linux & Mac that accesses and maniuplates MySql
databases.   What I'm
> wanting to do is convert that program to wxRuby.
>
> Assuming the program is written and I'm satisfied that
it works how
> simple is it to distribute, for people to download and
run it.   For
> user's to download it I'm assuming they would have to
have Ruby
> installed on their computer.   Is there an easy way to
package things to
> Windows, Linux and/or Mac.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
> Steve.
> Melbourne, Austrlaia.
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Bela Babik wrote:
> 
http://www.erikveenstra.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html
> may work. I have used it only with console applications
till now.

Thank you, very informative.   At least I know that Ruby
programs can be 
distributed.

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Making a RubyGem is another possibility. Going with a gem
helps with
dependency issues and rolling back to old versions is easy
to do.

Sean

On 10/5/07, Steven Taylor <listsruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I'm still a new user of Ruby, sort of trailling it at
the moment.
>
> I've written a program using RealBasic which I can
compile to Windows,
> Linux & Mac that accesses and maniuplates MySql
databases.   What I'm
> wanting to do is convert that program to wxRuby.
>
> Assuming the program is written and I'm satisfied that
it works how
> simple is it to distribute, for people to download and
run it.   For
> user's to download it I'm assuming they would have to
have Ruby
> installed on their computer.   Is there an easy way to
package things to
> Windows, Linux and/or Mac.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
> Steve.
> Melbourne, Austrlaia.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com
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