Ruby Q's

[Flickayy]

Hey guys.

i've been wondering for a while now. How on earth can i build ruby so it is just a single .exe

and mabye hopefulkly get rid of that annoying command prompt window? if you need to know, im using Gosu at the moment.

thanks.

Also, does anyone know where i can get a freww Ruby IDE.. that doesnt need VS2008.. thanks again.

 

[Flickayy]

Ok i found Netbeans IDE. so im just looking for a way to create a single .exe file

 

[Glitchfinder]

There's a program called Ruby2EXE that is supposed to be able to do that. Unfortunately, I've never been able to get it to work...

 

[Flickayy]

yea thats the problem im haveing, i cant seem to get it to work either...

 

[Dargor]

Rubyscript2exe works like a charm, as long as your ruby application is conform to the ruby standards and contains no error.
The command line I'm usually using is

c:\rubyscript2exe my_app.rb

without any other arguments, and it works very well. The only thing that annoys me is the DOS Prompt that pops up every time I launch the exe. I don't know how to get rid of that.

 

[Flickayy]

well i know how to get rid of that i hear its something like

ruby rubyscript2exe.rb my_app.rb -w

or something, i was reading it last night. :thumb:

thanks guys, ill test it when i get home

 

[Yeyinde]

You can use:

rubyscript2exe  my_app.rb --rubyscript2exe-rubyw

or just

rubyscript2exe  my_app.rbw

if you saved your primary application as a windowless ruby file (*.rbw)

 

[Flickayy]

Ah ok, thanks yeyinde

 

[Dahrkael]

you can try exerb too.
is what i use to pack my games and apps into single .exes, exerb generates a yaml file so you can choose what include and what no include into your exe.

Have gui mode with error output in a cool window but some antivirus detects the gui core like troyan, anyway you can use the normal core.

gem install exerb

How to pack:
http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2008/12/30 ... ith-exerb/

 

[trebor777]

I suggest Ocra which works like a charm with both versions of ruby and the latest rubygem version, instead of ruby2exe. Also Ocra generates smaller exe files.