'compiling' ruby into an exe file- how to do it?

Ruby
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I tried rubyscript2exe.rb and that has errors in the source.

Does anyone know of a ‘compiler’ for my debugged ruby source into an exe
file?

Thanks in advance

Joe

2

Ocra is the best and simplest way.

https://rubygems.org/gems/ocra

– Matma R.

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On 9/22/2011 2:45 PM, Joe C. wrote:

I tried rubyscript2exe.rb and that has errors in the source.

Does anyone know of a ‘compiler’ for my debugged ruby source into
an exe file?

Thanks in advance

Joe

rubyscript2exe has been discontinued for a long time. I’d recommend
trying ocra (http://ocra.rubyforge.org/). I tried it once in the past
with good results, but haven’t needed an exe in some time.

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Will it work under windows xp? I made some progress with it under
windows but get strange errors…Here is the console command and the
subsequent error message

ruby rubylib/ocrasa.rb rubylib/pvfv.rb

pvfv.rb is my script to compile and contains require ‘tk’ in it

Here is the console log:
=== Loading script to check dependencies
TK Version: 8.5.10
PVFV Starting up at Fri Sep 23 06:42:38
PVFV going down at Fri Sep 23 06:42:41…crash!
=== WARNING: Object::TkTreeview was defined autoloadable, but caused
NameError

any ideas?

Joe

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not sure what exactly you had tried to do with your command, but Ocra
not work like this.

TO use ocra, refer to the ocra doc,

the command you should use is something like

ocra yourapplication.rb ressources\ress1.jpg ressources\res2.bnp

with all your project files

you can add this line after your requires in the 1st ruby file
exit if Object.const_defined?(:Ocra)
to avoid ocra execute your app

and I think you had to require all libs in the 1st script as ocra will
only look in this file, but not sure of that.

anyway, I use ocra for my applications with wxruby and it work fine.

btw name your 1st script name.rbw if you do not want ruby start the
console.