I’ve snagged the Ruby Nutshell book (which is jam-packed full of stuff that
I currently can’t decipher), and have another book on the way from Amazon
soon. I’m trying to be patient, to go through the docs, and to leave you
more adept folks alone until I can at least ask some non-tedious questions.
But I have this nagging issue that I really want to find out about NOW, and
I’m hoping someone will have a little mercy on a newbie.
Namely: I’ve seen references to “self-compiled” Ruby files. What does that
mean, or, where do I read up on it?
I’ve snagged the Ruby Nutshell book (which is jam-packed full of stuff that
I currently can’t decipher), and have another book on the way from Amazon
soon. I’m trying to be patient, to go through the docs, and to leave you
more adept folks alone until I can at least ask some non-tedious questions.
But I have this nagging issue that I really want to find out about NOW, and
I’m hoping someone will have a little mercy on a newbie.
Namely: I’ve seen references to “self-compiled” Ruby files. What does that
mean, or, where do I read up on it?
I’ve snagged the Ruby Nutshell book (which is jam-packed full of stuff that
I currently can’t decipher), and have another book on the way from Amazon
soon.
If you are very new to Ruby and don’t have a complex programming
background, then Mark Slagell’s “Teach yourself Ruby in 21 days” might
be of interest to you (despite the title, it is a wonderful book).
Of course you can compile ruby scripts, look for ‘exerb’.
This does not compile anything. It packages your Ruby application along
with the Ruby interpreter, so that you can distribute a Ruby app as if
it were stand-alone native code. However, it is still being interpreted
by ruby.exe.