# Bundling in VR

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bundling-in-vr/227573>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [March 19, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bundling-in-vr/227573 "2013-03-19T21:41:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![cbnewman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@cbnewman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cbnewman)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bundling-in-vr/227573/1 "2013-03-19T21:41:00Z")

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how do you bundle a program in Visual Ruby?

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**Author:** ![cbnewman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@cbnewman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cbnewman)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bundling-in-vr/227573/2 "2013-03-19T23:31:41Z")

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Hello Ben,

Currently, the default way of distributing programs in VR, is to create  
a  
Gem, if you wish to have an external way method to bundling, such as for  
Windows installs, or Mac OS X .app folder structures, you may want to  
look  
at rubyscript2exe, or ocra (Windows only). On Mac OS X, you simply need  
to  
bundle your gem files with bundler, and use a program like Platypus that  
generates a App bundle for Mac OS X.

Resources:

RubyScript2EXE: [http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/)  
Ocra: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/ocra/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ocra/)  
Platypus: [Platypus - Create Mac apps from command line scripts |](http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus)

P.S.

RubyScript2exe and Ocra can be installed as gems, via gem install  
rubyscript2exe and gem install ocra

I will be setting up a way to “compile” programs into single service  
installation packages, and executables for distributing on Windows and  
Mac  
OS X.

hth,

Mario

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