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A simple cross-platform installation thingy.

It was an ordeal to get a Ruby script to work on someone else’s computer, so I had the notion to make something myself.

• Abandoned – no real effort was actually made, and it turned out there was no use for it at work after all.

Goals ∞

• Replace the functionality of a simple DOS script.

  • Windows has many freeware installers..

• Work on Mac OSX

  • OSX has Ruby included.. but older OSX has 1.6 — what issues does this create?
  • The latest OSX has Ruby 1.8.2 included.
  • Do I rely on OSX having Ruby included, or should I wrap it in my own one-click thingy?
  • OSX has its own nice package manager.

• Be simple to use

Notes ∞

• http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/index.html

Tools ∞

• http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/index.html

  • Take a ruby script and its dependant scripts and combine them into one myscript.rb so that one single ruby myscript.rb will work.

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

  • Take one script and turn it into an executable.
  • I’d have to make two executables, one for Windows and one for OSX, but that’s fine.
  • Tested, and it works. I installed the .gem because the .rb seemed to not like me for some reason. Whatever.

• WxRuby