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Oleg Mikheev
Oleg Mikheev

Reputation: 17444

Ruby standalone app deployment/distribution

What's the best way to distribute a simple command-line Ruby app to clients in a way that would not require them to manually install Ruby and required Gems?

In my understanding this task boils down just to a couple of lines of SH/BAT code that does Ruby/Gems checks and if not found goes on with Ruby installation with RVM.

So do these lines of code exist already somewhere or will I need to write something on my own?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1002

Answers (3)

rogerdpack
rogerdpack

Reputation: 66911

The closest I've found is (I believe) releasy: https://github.com/Spooner/releasy

Upvotes: 1

Oleg Mikheev
Oleg Mikheev

Reputation: 17444

I failed to find any way of producing a Ruby cross platform installation.

I've created a RubyAnywhere script that tries to solve this task.

Upvotes: 0

Fareesh Vijayarangam
Fareesh Vijayarangam

Reputation: 5052

I've used this project for small scripts in the past, without any issues http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/

It creates an EXE file out of your ruby script.

If you need something cross-platform, the BAT/sh option is probably best. You could grab RVM, have RVM install ruby, use bundler for your gems, and then launch the script.

Upvotes: 1

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