"Portable" Ruby

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I'm wondering if it's feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
"Portable App" (along the lines of http://www.portableapps.com). The
idea is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes
entirely from removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the
machine it's run on -- no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.

What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run
being far more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I'd use it on.

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from my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter

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Both are quite easy to do.

Since it's a portable app you probably want a windows distribution.

AFAIK the distribution from InstantRails would work as "portble" out of the
box.

It would take some tweaking (mainly a bat file for the environment
variables) to get the OneClickRuby to become portable.

Have you heard of Ruby2Exe?

Aur Saraf

http://RubyMentor.rubyforge.org/

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On 4/8/07, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm wondering if it's feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
"Portable App" (along the lines of http://www.portableapps.com). The idea
is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes entirely from
removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the machine it's run on
-- no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.

What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run from
my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter being far
more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I'd use it on.

  --
*Michael T. Richter* <ttmrichter@gmail.com> (*GoogleTalk:*
ttmrichter@gmail.com)
*In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know
the man. (孔夫子)*

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RubyScript2Exe might meet your needs:

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html

David

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On Apr 8, 10:23 am, "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrich...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm wondering if it's feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
"Portable App" (along the lines ofhttp://www.portableapps.com). The
idea is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes
entirely from removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the
machine it's run on -- no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.

What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run
from my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter
being far more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I'd use it on.

--
Michael T. Richter <ttmrich...@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
ttmrich...@gmail.com)
In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will
know the man. (孔夫子)

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Couldn't you do something similar to InstantRails? I think it is
windows only...but maybe it will give you ideas.

Mike B.

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On Apr 8, 6:23 am, "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrich...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm wondering if it's feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
"Portable App" (along the lines ofhttp://www.portableapps.com). The
idea is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes
entirely from removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the
machine it's run on -- no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.

What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run
from my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter
being far more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I'd use it on.

--
Michael T. Richter <ttmrich...@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
ttmrich...@gmail.com)
In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will
know the man. (孔夫子)

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Google for:

ruby2exe
instantRails

also you can just copy full ruby interpreter to your usb stick, but if you
want wiki instantrails is much faster/easier

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On Sunday 08 April 2007 14:23, Michael T. Richter wrote:

I'm wondering if it's feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
"Portable App" (along the lines of http://www.portableapps.com). The
idea is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes
entirely from removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the
machine it's run on -- no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.

What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run
from my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter
being far more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I'd use it on.

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Well PortableApps is windows only anyway unfortunately.

Some guy described how to here. He used InstantRails or a variant of it.

http://ruby.about.com/od/resources/ss/portable_ruby.htm
http://ruby.about.com/od/resources/qt/portable_rails.htm

Been meaning to do this kind of thing myself. It could be very handy
for teaching Ruby/Rails. Y'know bring your educational install around with
you and such.

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On 4/9/07, barjunk <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:

On Apr 8, 6:23 am, "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if it's feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
> "Portable App" (along the lines ofhttp://www.portableapps.com). The
> idea is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes
> entirely from removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the
> machine it's run on -- no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.
>
> What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run
> from my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter
> being far more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I'd use it on.
>
> --
> Michael T. Richter <ttmrich...@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
> ttmrich...@gmail.com)
> In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will
> know the man. (孔夫子)
>
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Couldn't you do something similar to InstantRails? I think it is
windows only...but maybe it will give you ideas.