I'm learning GUI programming with Ruby/Tk on Mac OS X (10.4.9). How does one deploy standalone Ruby applications on OS X, especially if you are not using Ruby-Cocoa? Is there a tool like py2app (Python) that gathers up the libraries and frameworks and scripts and generates a standalone app bundle?
google rubyscript2exe.
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Kevin Walzer wrote:
I'm learning GUI programming with Ruby/Tk on Mac OS X (10.4.9). How does one
deploy standalone Ruby applications on OS X, especially if you are not using
Ruby-Cocoa? Is there a tool like py2app (Python) that gathers up the
libraries and frameworks and scripts and generates a standalone app bundle?
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On 20 Mar 2007, at 20:50, Kevin Walzer wrote:
I'm learning GUI programming with Ruby/Tk on Mac OS X (10.4.9). How does one deploy standalone Ruby applications on OS X, especially if you are not using Ruby-Cocoa? Is there a tool like py2app (Python) that gathers up the libraries and frameworks and scripts and generates a standalone app bundle?
Although the RubyScript2Exe website mentions OS X support, it seems to be very experimental. How well does it work on OS X?. Can you make a double-clickable .app package with it?
I have been able to use Automator to make a Finder launchable app that runs a Ruby/Tk script. I was even able to install my own Finder icons (.icns) into it. Doing it with Automator is somewhat kludgy and the resulting package has about a 220 KB footprint, but process is simple and reliable.
Regards, Morton
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On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:58 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Kevin Walzer wrote:
I'm learning GUI programming with Ruby/Tk on Mac OS X (10.4.9). How does one
deploy standalone Ruby applications on OS X, especially if you are not using
Ruby-Cocoa? Is there a tool like py2app (Python) that gathers up the
libraries and frameworks and scripts and generates a standalone app bundle?google rubyscript2exe.