Has anyone come across any interesting ways to make rails apps easily
distributable to run on a local machine. I’d love to be able to
“bundle” my rails app into a single file that would contain a simple
webserver, database and my rails app which a non-experienced user could
then download install on their machine, go to a web browser and run the
app locally. I envision it would be something like bundling your rails
app with something like the all-in-one Locomotive. Has anybody tried
anything like this? I’d love to hear your experience.
Hi !
2006/4/5, Steve E. [email protected]:
Has anyone come across any interesting ways to make rails apps easily
distributable to run on a local machine. I’d love to be able to
“bundle” my rails app into a single file that would contain a simple
webserver, database and my rails app which a non-experienced user could
then download install on their machine, go to a web browser and run the
app locally. I envision it would be something like bundling your rails
app with something like the all-in-one Locomotive. Has anybody tried
anything like this? I’d love to hear your experience.
Look at rubyscript2exe, a gem.
Bye !
Steve E. wrote:
Has anyone come across any interesting ways to make rails apps easily
distributable to run on a local machine. I’d love to be able to
“bundle” my rails app into a single file that would contain a simple
webserver, database and my rails app which a non-experienced user could
then download install on their machine, go to a web browser and run the
app locally. I envision it would be something like bundling your rails
app with something like the all-in-one Locomotive. Has anybody tried
anything like this? I’d love to hear your experience.
I’ll put in a little plug for using Ackbar and KirbyBase for the
database layer (both on RubyForge) and rubyscript2exe to bundle the
whole thing into an exe.
I’m a little biased on the database side, but the advantage of using
Ackbar/KirbyBase for a bundled rails app is ease of deployment, since
they are both pure-Ruby. The downside is that Ackbar/KirbyBase only
supports a limited subset of SQL. If you need to do complex queries,
you will have to use Ruby code blocks.
I just completed my first Rails intranet app using Ackbar/KirbyBase for
my company. It has been live for a few days and is used by about 20
people in my department. So far, no problems. I plan on posting this
app on my website for download as a Ackbar proof-of-concept in a few
days.
As far as rubyscript2exe goes, I have used this a lot to create Windows
gui app exes. It works great. I have yet to bundle a rails app using
this tool, but I’m pretty sure Erik, the author, has done this and even
written a how-to.
HTH,
Jamey
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François Beausoleil wrote:
Look at rubyscript2exe, a gem.
Bye !
Thanks so much! Based on your feedback I was able to find a tutorial on
how to do this.
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/rails.html
Steve
I would think that Mongrel would be an excellent choice for a web server
to distribute with it as well. I tried this out last night and it blows
the doors off of WEBrick. Apache might be another good choice, but it
seems a bit of overkill for something that would essentially be a
desktop app that just happens to run through a server.
On Wednesday, April 05, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Jamey C. wrote:
HTH,
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