I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails
applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It
obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to be
taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone
application. Since I never built a Rails application myself, I
wasn't even sure if it was possible at all. That's why I
decided to write a little tutorial:
I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails
applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It
obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to
be taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone
application. Since I never built a Rails application myself,
I wasn't even sure if it was possible at all. That's why I
decided to write a little tutorial:
I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails
applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It
obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to
be taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone
application. Since I never built a Rails application myself,
I wasn't even sure if it was possible at all. That's why I
decided to write a little tutorial:
In article <1128630616.931542.94820@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
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Erik Veenstra <google@erikveen.dds.nl> wrote:
I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails
applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It
obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to
be taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone
application. Since I never built a Rails application myself,
I wasn't even sure if it was possible at all. That's why I
decided to write a little tutorial:
I would love to see an example of someone taking this exe and adding the
hooks so it can be registered as a windows service. If anyone has already
done this please pass along the info, if not I will give it a shot this
weekend and report back.
Josh
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On 10/6/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
Erik Veenstra wrote:
>>I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails
>>applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It
>>obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to
>>be taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone
>>application. Since I never built a Rails application myself,
>>I wasn't even sure if it was possible at all. That's why I
>>decided to write a little tutorial:
>>
>> Distributing Rails Applications - A Tutorial
>
>
> I've updated the document. It's now based on Windows instead of
> Linux. Might be easier to read and understand for most of us.
>
RubyScript2Exe is quite tasty. I managed, with minor difficulty, to
package up a standalone Og/Nitro app as well.
> > Distributing Rails Applications - A Tutorial
>
> I've updated the document. It's now based on Windows
> instead of Linux. Might be easier to read and understand
> for most of us.
Could you also make the Linux version of the document
available?
Sorry, I've overwritten the Linux version with the Windows
version. I thought that a Windows version was readable for
everybody, while a Linux version might be a bit harder to read
for a Windows user.
But don't worry. Every single step on both platforms is the
same. The differences are just textual: back slashes instead of
forward slashes, "c:\>" instead of "#" and "xcopy /s" instead
of "cp -af". That's it.
(also, will it work on OS X?)
I think so. I've no test environment, but all components used
in the tutorial are available for OS X. It shouldn't be a
problem. Could you test it?